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Parallel finite element algorithms are proposed for the solution of physical problems described by means of non-linear partial differential or integro-differential equations of mixed type, using unstructured computational meshes. Typical applications include the flow of viscoelastic fluids and of fiber-reinforced polymer melts. A generic parallel approach to the assembly and solution of the finite element equation sets is described, together with the associated load balancing and mesh partitioning tools. Finally, the proposed algorithms are evaluated in the simulation of viscoelastic flows, performed on various distributed memory MIMD parallel computers such as the INTEL iPSC/860 hypercube, the CONVEX Meta Series, and a heterogeneous network of workstations.
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Keunings, R., Aggarwal, R., Henriksen, P., Vanderstraeten, D., Zone, O. (1994). Parallel finite element algorithms applied to polymer flow. In: Gentzsch, W., Harms, U. (eds) High-Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 796. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0020382
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