Unsteady CFD computations using vertex-centered finite volumes for unstructured grids on Graphics Processing Units

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 232-246

  Asouti, V G ^a   Trompoukis, X S ^a   Kampolis, I C ^a   Giannakoglou, K C ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Graphics Processing Units; Transonic buffet; Unsteady flows; Unstructured hybrid grids

Indexed keywords

CELL-CENTERED SCHEME; CFD COMPUTATION; DOUBLE PRECISION; FINITE VOLUME; FINITE VOLUME SCHEMES; FORTRAN CODES; GPU IMPLEMENTATION; GRAPHICS CARD; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS; NAVIER-STOKES SOLVER; PROGRAMMING COMPLEXITY; QUADRILATERAL ELEMENTS; SINGLE CPU; SPEED-UPS; SUPERCRITICAL AIRFOILS; TRANSONIC BUFFET; UNSTRUCTURED GRID; UNSTRUCTURED/HYBRID GRIDS;

AERODYNAMICS; AIRFOILS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; GERMANIUM; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; UNSTEADY FLOW;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT;

EID: 80051658396     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: 10970363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.2352     Document Type: Article

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