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Visiometrics, Juxtaposition and Modeling

MAR 01, 1993
High‐performance computers that allow users to visualize and diagnose numerical simulations and interact with them rapidly are boosting scientific productivity in the study of complex and turbulent systems.
Norman J. Zabusky
Deborah Silver
Richard Pelz

With the advent of massively parallel computers, the evolution of nonlinear dynamical systems such as fluids and plasmas is being investigated in three dimensions at increasingly high resolutions. Today a typical physical volume is represented by 100 3 grid points, and we may expect the resolution to increase to 1000 3 by the end of the decade.

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More about the authors

Norman J. Zabusky, Rutgers University; Piscataway, New Jersey.

Deborah Silver, Department of electrical and computer, engineering, Rutgers.

Richard Pelz, Department of mechanical and aerospace enginering, Rutgers.

, Industrial, Productivity, Rutgers.

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