Efficient parallelization of RMCRT for large scale LES combustion simulations

20th AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Hunsaker, Isaac ^a   Harman, Todd ^a   Thornock, Jeremy ^a   Smith, Philip J ^b  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION SIMULATIONS; COMBUSTION SYSTEMS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MASSIVE PARALLELISM; NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES; PARTICIPATING MEDIA; RADIATIVE HEAT TRANSFER; REVERSE MONTE CARLO;

ALGORITHMS; CELLS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CYTOLOGY; FUEL SYSTEMS; HEAT TRANSFER;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 84880589921     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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