Conservation Properties of Unstructured Staggered Mesh Schemes

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 58-89

  Perot, Blair ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Conservation; Navier Stokes; Staggered mesh; Unstructured

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; KINETICS; MESH GENERATION; MOMENTUM; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; VISCOUS FLOW;

ACCURACY; CONSERVATION PROPERTIES; GENERALISATION; MESH DISCRETIZATIONS; NAVIER STOKES; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATION; STAGGERED MESH; STAGGERED MESH SCHEME; UNSTRUCTURED; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES;

KINETIC ENERGY;

EID: 0002868129     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.2000.6424     Document Type: Article

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