Adaptive Mesh and Algorithm Refinement Using Direct Simulation Monte Carlo

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 134-155

  Garcia, Alejandro L ^a,b   Bell, John B ^a   Crutchfield, William Y ^a   Alder, Berni J ^c  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONTE CARLO METHODS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

A-PARTICLES; ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT; ALGORITHM REFINEMENT; COMPRESSIBLE NAVIER-STOKES; CONTINUUM METHOD; DIRECT SIMULATION MONTE CARLO; NAVIER-STOKES SOLVER; PARTICLE METHODS;

MESH GENERATION;

EID: 0000383154     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1999.6305     Document Type: Article

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