ISSN:
0001-1541
Keywords:
Chemistry
;
Chemical Engineering
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
Notes:
For the simulation and optimization of large-scale chemical processes, the overall computing time is often dominated by the time needed to solve a large sparse system of linear equations. A new parallel frontal solver that can significantly reduce the wallclock time required to solve these linear equation systems using parallel/vector supercomputers is presented. The algorithm exploits both multiprocessing and vector processing by using a multilevel approach in which frontal elimination is used for the partial factorization of each front. Results of several large-scale process simulation and optimization problems are presented.
Additional Material:
5 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aic.690430417
