Solving Boltzmann equation on GPU

Procedia Computer Science

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1083-1091

  Kloss, Yu Yu ^a,b   Shuvalov, P V ^a,b   Tcheremissine, F G ^a,c  

^a MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b KURCHATOV INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c DORODNICYN COMPUTING CENTER   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Boltzmann equation; CUDA; GPGPU; Rarefied gas; Shock waves; Slow flows

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF GASES; GASES; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SHOCK WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

COMPUTATIONAL PLATFORMS; CUDA; GPGPU; PROJECTION METHOD; RAREFIED GAS; RECTANGULAR CAVITY; SLOW FLOW; TWO-DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRY;

BOLTZMANN EQUATION;

EID: 78650257523     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18770509     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2010.04.120     Document Type: Conference Paper

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