Glossary
- ALE
Arbitrary Lagrange Eulerian
- AMD
Advanced Micro Devices
- AMG
Algebraic Multi Grid
- ANL
Argonne National Laboratory
- API
Application Programming Interface
- AVM
Artificial Viscosity Method described in [Persson]
- BDF
Backward Differentiation Formula
- CFD
Computational Fluid Dynamics
- CFL
Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy
- CUDA
Compute Unified Device Architecture, or Nvidia’s API for programming with GPUs
- CPU
Central Processing Unit
- ENRICO
Exascale Nuclear Reactor Investigative COde that couples nekRS to neutronics tools, see it on github.
- FPGA
Field-Programmable Gate Array
- GLL
Gauss-Lobatto-Legendre
- GPU
Graphics Processing Unit
- GUI
Graphical User Interface
- HIP
- HPC
High Performance Computing
- MPI
Message Passing Interface
- Nek5000
A high performance CFD spectral element code; see it on github.
- OCCA
Open Concurrent Compute Abstraction, an API for interacting with various GPU backends; see it on github.
- OKL
OCCA Kernel Language
- OpenCL
A standard maintained by the Khronos Group for programming with CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and other hardware accelerators.
- PSU
Pennsylvania State University
- RANS
Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes
- SST
Shear Stress Transport
- UIUC
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign