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Numerical simulation of 3D fully nonlinear water waves on parallel computers

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A new programming model is used to parallelize a sequential simulator for 3D fully nonlinear water waves. This so-called simulator-parallel model has its numerical foundation in additive Schwarz methods, so it possesses inherent parallelism and inherits the intrinsic numerical efficiency of domain decomposition algorithms. Within an object-oriented framework implementing this model, the actual parallelization work for the sequential wave simulator becomes straightforward. Numerical experiments show that the resulting parallel simulator achieves good parallel efficiency.

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  1. Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Blindern, P.O. Box 1080, N-0316, Oslo, Norway

    Xing Cai

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Bo Kågström Jack Dongarra Erik Elmroth Jerzy Waśniewski

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Cai, X. (1998). Numerical simulation of 3D fully nonlinear water waves on parallel computers. In: Kågström, B., Dongarra, J., Elmroth, E., Waśniewski, J. (eds) Applied Parallel Computing Large Scale Scientific and Industrial Problems. PARA 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1541. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0095318

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