Imposing 'no' boundary condition at outflow: Why does it work?

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 413-417

  Renardy, Michael ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Extrapolation conditions; Finite elements; Open boundaries

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW OF FLUIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ARTIFICIAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; EXTRAPOLATION CONDITIONS; ONE DIMENSIONAL MODEL; OPEN BOUNDARIES; OUTFLOW CONDITIONS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MODELLING-MATHEMATICAL; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 0031080045     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0363(19970228)24:4<413::aid-fld507>3.0.co;2-n     Document Type: Article

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