A parallel implementation of the direct simulation Monte Carlo method

DOI10.1016/S0045-7825(98)00302-8zbMath0961.76076OpenAlexW2070052694MaRDI QIDQ1971310

G. J. LeBeau

Publication date: 28 May 2001

Published in: Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0045-7825(98)00302-8

zbMATH Keywords

parallel implementationdynamic load balancingdirect simulation Monte Carlo techniquemaster/slave programming model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic analysis applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M35) Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Parallel numerical computation (65Y05)

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Uses Software

• PVM

Cites Work

• Vectorization of a Monte Carlo simulation scheme for nonequilibrium gas dynamics
• The NX message passing interface
• Optimization of direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) codes for vector processing
• Direct simulation of gas flows at the molecular level