With contributions from: J. Cai, E.C. da Silva, P. Devloo, P.K. Jimack, P.K. Jimack, J.W. Jones, I. Klapka, G. Kokassalakis, L. Laemmer, N.D. Lagaros, F. Neugebauer, M. Papadrakakis, G. Thierauf, B.H.V. Topping, N. Touheed and N.P. Weatherill.
This volume contains the keynote lectures presented at The Second Euro-Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing for Computational Mechanics, held in Sintra, Portugal on 4-9 April 1998. The Euro-Conference was funded by the European Commission. The focus of the book is on the application of high performance computing to computational mechanics.
The contents of the book include: parallel visualisation of computational engineering data; evolutionary algorithms applied to structural engineering problems; genetic algorithms applied to stuctural optimization; mesh generation, decomposition and refinement methods; developing parallel finite element software using MPI; techniques for parallel adaptivity; the object oriented approach to finite element programming; parallel solution methods for structural mechanics problems.
This book will be of interest to engineers, computer scientists and mathematicians concerned with the application of high performance computing to computational mechanics.
Saxe-Coburg Publications, hardback: 234 pages
2000: ISBN 1-874672-06-7 price £75