Adaptive solutions for viscoelastic flows

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 643-655

  Mutlu, I ^a   Townsend, P ^a   Webster, M F ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive meshing; Annular flow; Error analysis; Finite elements; Sphere; Viscoelastic flows

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; PIPE FLOW; PRESSURE REGULATION;

ADAPTIVE MESHING TECHNIQUE; ANNULAR CONVERGING TUBE FLOW; DELAUNAY PROCEDURE; GRID REMESHING; TAYLOR GALERKIN PRESSURE CORRECTION SCHEME;

VISCOELASTICITY;

BODIES-SPHERES; VISCOELASTICITY;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLUID FLOW; VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 0030268081     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0887(199610)12:10<643::AID-CNM12>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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