The Fractional-Step Method for the Navier-Stokes Equations on Staggered Grids: The Accuracy of Three Variations

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 660-665

  Armfield, S ^a   Street, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Fractional step; Navier stokes; Projection; Staggered

Indexed keywords

FRACTIONAL STEP; FRACTIONAL STEPS METHOD; NAVIER STOKES; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATION; PROJECTION; STAGGERED; STAGGERED-GRIDS;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 0000697052     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1999.6275     Document Type: Article

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