A PARALLEL CONTACT DETECTION ALGORITHM FOR TRANSIENT SOLID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS USING PRONTO3D

Authors
ATTAWAY SW HENDRICKSON BA PLIMPTON SJ GARDNER DR VAUGHAN CT BROWN KH HEINSTEIN MW
Citation
Sw. Attaway et al., A PARALLEL CONTACT DETECTION ALGORITHM FOR TRANSIENT SOLID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS USING PRONTO3D, Computational mechanics, 22(2), 1998, pp. 143-159
Citations number
30
Categorie Soggetti
Mechanics
Journal title
Computational mechanics → ACNP
ISSN journal
01787675
Volume
22
Issue
2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
143 - 159
Database
ISI
SICI code
0178-7675(1998)22:2<143:APCDAF>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
An efficient, scalable, parallel algorithm for treating material surfa ce contacts in solid mechanics finite element programs has been implem ented in a modular way for multiple-instruction, multiple-data (MIMD) parallel computers. The serial contact detection algorithm that was de veloped previously for the transient dynamics finite element code PRON TO3D has been extended for use in parallel computation by utilizing a dynamic (adaptive) load balancing algorithm. This approach is scalable to thousands of computational nodes(1).