Recommendations on performance of parallel DSMC algorithm in solving subsonic nanoflows

Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2314-2321

  Roohi, Ehsan ^a   Darbandi, Masoud ^b  

^a FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

^b SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

DSMC; MPI; Nanochannel; Parallel computing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL TIME; DIRECT SIMULATION MONTE CARLO; DSMC; MPI; NANO CHANNELS; NANOFLOWS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; SUBSONIC FLOW;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84855848247     PISSN: 0307904X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2011.08.036     Document Type: Article

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