Steady-state solutions of buoyancy-assisted internal flows using a fast false implicit transient scheme (FITS)

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 3-23

  El Refaee, M M ^a   Elsayed, M M ^a   Al Najem, N M ^c   Megahid, I E ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Buoyancy assisted laminar internal flows; False implicit transient scheme; Steady state solutions

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BENCHMARKING; BUOYANCY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ENERGY TRANSFER; NATURAL CONVECTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; STEADY FLOW; TWO PHASE FLOW; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FLOW INTERACTIONS; VORTEX FLOW;

BUOYANCY-ASSISTED LAMINAR INTERNAL FLOWS; FALSE IMPLICIT TRANSIENTS; STEADY-STATE SOLUTIONS; VORTICITY; ALTERNATING DIRECTION IMPLICIT; CONTROL VOLUME; FALSE IMPLICIT TRANSIENT SCHEME (FITS); STEADY STATE SOLUTIONS; SUCCESSIVE GRID REFINEMENT;

LAMINAR FLOW;

BUOYANCY; INTERNAL FLOW; STEADY FLOW; LAMINAR FLOWS; MODELLING-MATHEMATICAL;

EID: 0030239415     PISSN: 09615539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09615539610131235     Document Type: Article

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