Solving the Boltzmann equation on GPUs

DOI10.1016/j.cpc.2011.07.002zbMath1308.65009arXiv1005.5405OpenAlexW2030900563MaRDI QIDQ1943056

Aldo Frezzotti, Gian Pietro Ghiroldi, Livio Gibelli

Publication date: 15 March 2013

Published in: Computer Physics Communications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.5405

zbMATH Keywords

Boltzmann equationparallel computinggraphics processing unitsgas microflowsCUDA programming modelsemi-regular methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Numerical algorithms for specific classes of architectures (65Y10) Boltzmann equations (35Q20)

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Uses Software

• CUDA

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