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Computational physicists at Sandia National Laboratories have moved the Eulerian CTH code, and the arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian ALEGRA code to distributed memory parallel computers. CTH is a three-dimensional solid mechanics code used for large-deformation, shock analysis [1,2]. ALEGRA is a three-dimensional arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian code solid-mechanics code used for coupled large-deformation, shock and structural mechanics problems [3]. This paper discusses our experiences moving the codes to parallel computers, the algorithms we used and our experiences running the codes.
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McGlaun, M., Robinson, A., Peery, J. (1995). The Development and Application of Massively Parallel Solid Mechanics Codes. In: Atluri, S.N., Yagawa, G., Cruse, T. (eds) Computational Mechanics ’95. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79654-8_60
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