Strategies for adopting FVTD on multicomputers [finite-volume time-domain analysis]

Author

Shang, J.S. ; Wagner, Marcus ; Pan, Yi ; Blake, Douglas C.

Author_Institution

Res. Lab., Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, USA

Volume

2

Issue

1

fYear

2000

Firstpage

10

Lastpage

21

Abstract

Using the Message Passing Interface (MPI), Power Fortran and autotasking programming models, the authors have ported a sequential finite-volume numerical procedure, called Max3D, for solving the time-dependent (FVTD) Maxwell equations, to multicomputers. They have also demonstrated and verified a previously unobtainable high-frequency bistatic radar cross-section for a perfectly electrical conducting sphere

Keywords

FORTRAN; Maxwell equations; application program interfaces; finite volume methods; message passing; multiprocessing programs; partial differential equations; physics computing; radar computing; radar cross-sections; software portability; time-domain analysis; MPI; Max3D; Message Passing Interface; Power Fortran; algorithm porting; autotasking programming models; finite-volume time-domain analysis; high-frequency bistatic radar cross-section; multicomputers; perfectly electrical conducting sphere; sequential finite-volume numerical procedure; time-dependent Maxwell equations; Analytical models; Bistatic radar; Computational modeling; Electromagnetics; Iron; Magnetic flux; Maxwell equations; Message passing; Parallel processing; Physics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computing in Science & Engineering

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1521-9615

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/5992.814651

Filename

814651