The Blob Projection Method for Immersed Boundary Problems

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 428-453

  Cortez, R ^a   Minion, M ^b  

^a Tulane University   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Immersed boundaries; Projection method

Indexed keywords

TURBULENT FLOW;

BOUNDARY PROBLEMS; ELASTIC MEMBRANES; FINITE-DIFFERENCE NUMERICAL METHOD; IMMERSED BOUNDARY; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLUID; POINT FORCE; PROJECTION METHOD; REGULARIZED POINT; TWO-DIMENSIONAL DOMAIN; VELOCITY FIELD;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 0001123374     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.2000.6502     Document Type: Article

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