Our objective is to analyse a commonly used edge based finite volume approximation of the Laplacian and construct an accurate and stable way to implement boundary conditions. Of particular interest are general unstructured grids where the strength of the finite volume method is fully utilised. As a model problem we consider the heat equation. We analyse the Cauchy problem in one and several spa...

Traditional use of grid computing allows a user to submit batch jobs in a grid environment. We believe, next generation grids will extend the application domain to include interactive graphical sessions. We term such grids interactive grids. In this paper, we describe some of the challenges involved in building interactive grids. These include fine grain access control, QoS guarantees, and dyna...

The hexagonal and the triangular grids are duals of each other. These two grids are the first and second ones in the family of triangular grids (we can call them as oneand two-planes triangular grids). This family comes from the mapping their points to Z3. Their symmetric properties are triangular. The next grid is the three-planes triangular grid, which looks like the mix of them. In this pape...

The influence of antiscatter x-ray grids on image quality in cone-beam computed tomography (CT) is evaluated through broad experimental investigation for various anatomical sites (head and body), scatter conditions (scatter-to-primary ratio (SPR) ranging from approximately 10% to 150%), patient dose, and spatial resolution in three-dimensional reconstructions. Studies involved linear grids in c...

Finite-volume discretization schemes for viscous fluxes on general grids are compared using node-centered and cell-centered approaches. The grids range from regular grids to highly irregular grids, including random perturbations of the grid nodes. Accuracy and complexity are studied for four nominally second-order accurate schemes: a node-centered scheme and three cell-centered schemes (a node-...

Grid computing promises large scale computing facilities based on distributed systems. Much research has been done on the subject of increasing the performance of grids. We believe that an adequate performance analysis of grids requires knowledge of the workload and the architecture of the grid. Currently, researchers assume that grids are similar to other distributed systems, such as massively...

We have of course discussed Grids extensively here in previous articles and we adopt the view that they represent the system formed by the distributed collections of electronic capabilities that are managed and coordinated to support some sort of enterprise (virtual organization). Sometimes one reserves Grid to describe just the technology used to build these electronic communities or organizat...

This study deals with the applications of a trigonometric shear deformation theory considering the effect of the transverse shear deformation on the static flexural analysis of the soft core sandwich beams. The theory gives realistic variation of the transverse shear stress through the thickness, and satisfies the transverse shear stress free conditions at the top and bottom surfaces of the bea...

A block lower-upper symmetric Gauss-Seidel (BLU-SGS) implicit dual time-stepping method is developed for moving body problems with hybrid dynamic grids. To simulate flows over complex configurations, a hybrid grid method is adopted in this paper. Body-fitted quadrilateral (quad) grids are generated first near solid bodies. An adaptive Cartesian mesh is then generated to cover the entire computa...

A new agglomeration multigrid method is proposed in this paper for general unstructured grids. By a proper local agglomeration of finite elements, a nested sequence of finite dimensional subspaces are obtained by taking appropriate linear combinations of the basis functions from previous level of space. Our algorithm seems to be able to solve, for example, the Poisson equation discretized on an...