Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6961812 | Advances in Engineering Software | 2013 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
Real-time solution of the Discrete Element Method is a computational challenge that is hardly achievable on standard PCs, especially when a large number of triangular shaped particles are involved. This paper presents a scalable architecture, including a domain decomposition technique, of a GPU accelerator for the two-dimensional Discrete Element Method for triangular shaped particles. This approach achieved a speed up of about 140 times as a single core and about 80 after domain decomposition on a consumer level GPU compared to a similar algorithm run on a fast desktop PC.
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Authors
Lin Zhang, Steven F. Quigley, Andrew H.C. Chan,