Running unstructured grid-based CFD solvers on modern graphics hardware

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 221-229

  Corrigan, Andrew ^a   Camelli, Fernando F ^a   Löhner, Rainald ^a   Wallin, John ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Graphics hardware; Unstructured grids

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE SPEED; CFD SOLVER; CODE RUNNING; DATA LAYOUTS; EQUIVALENT CODES; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; MEMORY ACCESS; MEMORY BANDWIDTHS; MESH SIZE; NUMBERING SCHEME; REDUNDANT COMPUTATION; SHARED MEMORIES; TECHNIQUES USED; THREE-DIMENSIONAL EULER EQUATIONS; UNSTRUCTURED GRID;

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API);

EULER EQUATIONS;

EID: 79955372794     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: 10970363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.2254     Document Type: Article

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