The potential of graphical processing units to solve hydraulic network equations

Journal of Hydroinformatics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 603-612

  Crous, P A ^a   Roodt, Y ^a   Van Zy, J E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Computer programming; GPGPU; Hydraulic modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865034885     PISSN: 14647141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/hydro.2011.023     Document Type: Article

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