CUDA-opengl interoperability to visualize electromagnetic fields calculated by FDTD

Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 206-214

  Demir, Veysel ^a   Elsherbeni, Atef Z ^b  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

FDTD; GPGPU; Visualization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTE UNIFIED DEVICE ARCHITECTURES; FDTD; FDTD SIMULATIONS; FIELD DISTRIBUTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN; GPGPU; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; IMAGE MANIPULATION; STEP-BY-STEP;

ANIMATION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; DATA VISUALIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; FLOW VISUALIZATION; INTEROPERABILITY; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; VISUALIZATION;

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API);

EID: 84862082812     PISSN: 10544887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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