AbstractA parallel algorithm for the solution of potential flow problems using the panel method of Hess and Smith and conjugate and bi‐conjugate gradient techniques is presented. Analysis of the parallelism for the matrix. solvers shows the algorithms to have scalable properties as the problem size grows indefinitely large. Speed‐up and efficiency values are presented along with experimental and theoretical values for the optimum number of processors for maximum speed‐up. It is envisaged that the parallel techniques presented here have applications using other boundary integral methods for solving engineering problems of a more complex n