A Fourth Order Scheme for Incompressible Boussinesq Equations

Journal of Scientific Computing

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 253-285

  Liu, Jian Guo ^a   Wang, Cheng ^b   Johnston, Hans ^c  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Boussinesq equations; Compact scheme; Incompressible flow; Kelvin Helmholtz instability; Long stencil approximation; One sided extrapolation; Vorticity boundary condition

Indexed keywords

BOUSSINESQ EQUATIONS; COMPACT SCHEMES; KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITY; LONG-STENCIL APPROXIMATION; ONE SIDED EXTRAPOLATION;

BENCHMARKING; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HEAT TRANSFER; POISSON EQUATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REYNOLDS NUMBER; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW;

EID: 0011805231     PISSN: 08857474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021168924020     Document Type: Conference Paper

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