The genesis of the OIL code is the original Particle-in-Cell code written by Dr. Francis Harlow at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (Ref. 1). The OIL code (Ref. 2) was then developed by replacing the discrete particle mass transport by a continuum, ...

The Air Force Weapons Laboratory (AFWL) has maintained a strong interest in large scale fluid dynamics problems since its establishment some ten years ago. Typically, these problems have a spatial extent which changes by several orders of magnitude ...

The methods employed in solving the fluid dynamic equations are especially amenable to parallel techniques. In fact, one of the major forces behind the development of ILLIAC IV was the solution of hydrodynamic problems. During the early phases of ILLIAC ...