Analysis and implementation of the discrete element method using a dedicated highly parallel architecture in reconfigurable computing

IEEE Symposium on FPGAs for Custom Computing Machines, Proceedings

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 173-181

  Schäfer, B Carrión ^a   Quigley, S F ^a   Chan, A H C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; NUMERICAL METHODS; RECONFIGURABLE ARCHITECTURES;

DEDICATED HARDWARE; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR; PARTICLE FLOW; RECONFIGURABLE COMPUTING; SOFTWARE VERSIONS; SOLID MATERIAL; SPEED UP;

PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES;

EID: 84950113675     PISSN: 10823409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FPGA.2002.1106672     Document Type: Conference Paper

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