Computer Aided Analysis of Viscous Film Flow along an Inclined Wavy Wall

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 154, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 372-392

  Malamataris, N A ^a,b   Bontozoglou, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Finite element method; Free surface calculation; Viscous film flow

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; LAMINAR FLOW; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; NUMERICAL METHODS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

COMPUTER-AIDED ANALYSIS; FREE SURFACE CALCULATION; FREE SURFACES; GALERKIN FINITE ELEMENT METHODS; LAMINAR FLOW REGIMES; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATION; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL; VISCOUS FILM FLOWS; WAVY WALL;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0000392458     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1999.6319     Document Type: Article

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