An implicit parallel multigrid computing scheme to solve coupled thermal-solute phase-field equations for dendrite evolution

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 231, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1781-1796

  Guo, Z ^a   Mi, J ^b   Grant, P S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dendrite evolution; Multigrid method; Parallel computing; Phase field; Solidification

Indexed keywords

SCALABILITY;

COMPUTING SCHEME; DENDRITE EVOLUTION; FULLY-COUPLED; MULTIGRID METHODS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PARALLEL COM- PUTING; PARALLEL MULTIGRID; PHASE FIELD EQUATION; PHASE FIELDS; THERMAL;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 84855202028     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2011.11.006     Document Type: Article

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