Resurrecting core spreading vortex methods: A new scheme that is both deterministic and convergent

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 370-397

  Rossi, Louis F ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Convergence theory; Vortex methods; Vorticity dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000272847     PISSN: 10648275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S1064827593254397     Document Type: Article

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