Parallelizing PDE solvers using the Python programming language

Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering

Volumn 51, Issue , 2006, Pages 295-325

  Cai, Xing ^a,b   Langtangen, Hans Petter ^a,b  

^a SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C++ (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); DATA STRUCTURES; FORTRAN (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); MESSAGE PASSING; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

ACHIEVABLE PERFORMANCE; COMPUTATIONAL SPEED; HIGH-LEVEL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS (PDES); PYTHON PROGRAMMING; PYTHON PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; WAVE-TYPE EQUATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 84880483286     PISSN: 14397358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-31619-1_9     Document Type: Article

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