An Efficient Method for the Solution of the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations in Cylindrical Geometries

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 151, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 563-584

  Manna, M ^a   Vacca, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cylindrical coordinates; Domain decomposition; Spectral methods; Turbulent flows

Indexed keywords

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHODS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PIPE FLOW; POLYNOMIALS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR FLOW; TURBULENT FLOW;

COLLOCATION POINTS; CYLINDRICAL COORDINATES; CYLINDRICAL GEOMETRY; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITIONS; EXPONENTIAL RATES; INCOMPRESSIBLE (NAVIER )STOKES EQUATION; INCOMPRESSIBLE NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NAVIER-STOKES SOLVER; RADIAL DIRECTION; SPECTRAL METHODS;

CHEBYSHEV POLYNOMIALS;

EID: 0004952720     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1999.6197     Document Type: Article

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