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CSETS: 2
PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING FOR COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS: SYSTEMS AND TOOLS
Edited by: B.H.V. Topping
Chapter 15

Recent Developments in Parallel Numerical Simulation for Automotive Design

G. Lonsdale

NEC Europe Ltd., St. Augustin, Germany

Full Bibliographic Reference for this chapter
G. Lonsdale, "Recent Developments in Parallel Numerical Simulation for Automotive Design", in B.H.V. Topping, (Editor), "Parallel and Distributed Processing for Computational Mechanics: Systems and Tools", Saxe-Coburg Publications, Stirlingshire, UK, Chapter 15, pp 276-285, 1999. doi:10.4203/csets.2.15
Abstract
This paper focuses on important areas of numerical simulation which are at the forefront of High Performance Computing for automotive design. It is the aim of the paper to give first insights into typical applications and algorithms being used and the more recent developments related to the take up of HPC technology in the form of the distributed-memory, message-passing programming paradigm. Given the immense variety of simulations being performed within the automotive industry, and the complexity of the applications and algorithms employed, an exhaustive treatment of automotive simulation is not feasible. Instead, there will be a concentration on those applications which have been a major feature of the high-end computing requirements for many years: crashworthiness simulation, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), linear static and eigenvalue analyses.

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