Using a Curvilinear Grid to Construct Symmetry-Preserving Discretizations for Lagrangian Gas Dynamics

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 389-417

  Margolin, Len ^a   Shashkov, Mikhail ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b MS B284 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Curvilinear grids; Grid reconstruction; Invariant discretizations; Preservation of symmetry

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

CURVILINEAR GRIDS; CYLINDRICAL SYMMETRY; DISCRETIZATIONS; GRID RECONSTRUCTION; INVARIANT DISCRETIZATION; LAGRANGIAN; ORIGINAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PLANE SYMMETRY; PRESERVATION OF SYMMETRIES; SPHERICAL SYMMETRY;

GAS DYNAMICS;

EID: 0001121738     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1998.6161     Document Type: Article

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