Education

PhD Mechanical Engineering

Keio University, Japan (2009)

Publications

PetRBF-A parallel O(N) algorithm for radial basis function interpolation with Gaussians (2010)
R. Yokota, L. A. Barba, M. G. Knepley
Comput. Meth. Appl. Mech. Eng., vol: 199 , Issue: 25-28 , Pages: 1793-1804
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2010.02.008
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Comparing vortex methods and finite difference methods in a homogeneous shear flow (2010)
R. Yokota and S. Obi
Int. J. Num. Meth. Fluids, vol: 63 , Issue: 7 , Pages: 828-846
DOI: 10.1002/fld.2102
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42 TFlops hierarchical N-body simulation on GPUs with applications in both astrophysics and turbulence (2009)
T. Hamada, R. Yokota, K. Nitadori, T. Narumi, K. Yasuoka, M. Taiji, and K. Oguri
ACM Gordon Bell prize price/perfomance, SC09
DOI: 10.1145/1654059.1654123
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Fast multipole methods on a cluster of GPUs for the meshless simulation of turbulence (2009)
R. Yokota, T. Narumi, R. Sakamaki, S. Kameoka, S. Obi, and K. Yasuoka
Comput. Phys. Comm., vol: 180 , Issue: 11 , Pages: 2066-2078
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2009.06.009
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Calculation of isotropic turbulence using a pure Lagrangian vortex method (2007)
R. Yokota, T. K. Sheel, S. Obi
J. Comput. Phys. vol: 226 , Issue: 2 , Pages: 1589 - 1606
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2007.06.003
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Honours

ACM Gordon Bell prize price/perfomance, SC09 (2009)

Research Interests

Particle based simulation in continuum systems; vortex methods, SPH, meshfree methods

Higher order schemes for particle based simulations; kernel functions, radial basis functions

Fast algorithms for particle based simulations; treecodes, fast multipole methods, fast Gauss transforms

Fast algorithms on parallel computers and graphics processing units

Research Themes

• Fluid Dynamics
• Scientific Computing

Funded by

Numerical study of high-Reynolds number flow with high-order accurate meshless vortex method

EPSRC

Principal Researcher: Lorena A. Barba