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Large Scale Simulations of Jets in Dense and Magnetised Environments

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High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering ’03

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We have used the vectorised and parallelised MHD code NIRVANA on the NEC SX-5 in parallel mode to simulate the interaction of jets with a dense environment on a scale of more than 200 jet radii. A maximum performance of 0.75 GFLOP per processor could be reached.

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  1. Landessternwarte Königstuhl, 69117, Heidelberg, Germany

    Martin Krause & Max Camenzind

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  1. Aerodynamisches Institut der RWTH Aachen, Wuellnerstraße zw. 5 u. 7, 52062, Aachen, Germany

    Egon Krause

  2. Institut für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen, Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 368, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany

    Willi Jäger

  3. High Performance Computing Center, Stuttgart — HLRS, Allmandring 30, 70550, Stuttgart, Germany

    Michael Resch

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Krause, M., Camenzind, M. (2003). Large Scale Simulations of Jets in Dense and Magnetised Environments. In: Krause, E., Jäger, W., Resch, M. (eds) High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering ’03. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55876-4_7

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