Temporal, spatial and thermal features of 3-D Rayleigh-Bénard convection by a least-squares finite element method

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 140, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 201-219

  Tang, Li Q ^a,b   Tsang, Tate T H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW PATTERNS; INTEGRATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; LINEARIZATION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PRANDTL NUMBER;

CRANK NICOLSON INTEGRATION METHOD; JACOBI CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHOD; NEWTON'S METHOD; OSCILLATORY TRANSIENT SOLUTION; RAYLEIGH BENARD CONVECTION; RAYLEIGH NUMBER;

HEAT CONVECTION;

EID: 0030786847     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7825(96)01053-5     Document Type: Article

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