Quintela, Bárbara de MeloFerreira, Anna Paula GuidaFarage, Michèle Cristina ResendeLobosco, Marcelo2017-05-252017-05-252010QUINTELA, Bárbara de Melo et al. Vetor, v. 20, n. 1, p. 30-44, 2010. Disponível em: <https://www.seer.furg.br/vetor/article/view/1742>. Acesso em: 12 dez. 2016.0102-7352http://repositorio.furg.br/handle/1/7187The Asymptotic Expansion Homogenization (AEH) technique is used to estimate the effective properties of heterogeneous media with periodical microstructure. A considerable computational effort can be necessary even though the adopted models are quite simple. For this reason, parallelization is often necessary to achieve good performance. This work presents a first attempt to parallelize the AEH implementation code. Although the parallelization process is in a very early stage, the preliminary results show that the parallel version provides up to a 30% improvement in application speed. This work consists on a step towards a numerical tool for the analysis of more complex and three-dimensional periodic cells. The two-dimensional AEH was implemented in the C programming language for the future generalization to three-dimensional problems employing the available parallelization tools.engopen accessAsymptotic homogenizationHeterogeneityPeriodicityFinite element methodParallel computingarticle