Scalability of pseudospectral methods for geodynamo simulations

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 38-56

  Davies, Christopher J ^a   Gubbins, David ^a   Jimack, Peter K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

geodynamo; pseudospectral method; scalability

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE DEVICES; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; SCALABILITY;

COMPUTATIONAL CHALLENGES; COMPUTATIONAL REQUIREMENTS; EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTING FLUIDS; GEODYNAMO; NUMERICAL APPROXIMATIONS; PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATIONS; PSEUDOSPECTRAL METHODS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 78650478757     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1593     Document Type: Article

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