An optimization approach for Stokes flow in a channel with a cylindrical block by the BEM

Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 89-95

  Meric, R Alsan ^a  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Adjoint variable method; Boundary element method; Optimization approach; Sensitivity analysis; Stokes flow

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FUNCTIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STREAM FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

ADJOINT VARIABLE METHOD; DISCRETIZATION; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; STOKES FLOW; STREAM FUNCTIONS; VORTICITY FUNCTIONS;

CHANNEL FLOW;

EID: 0031102902     PISSN: 09557997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0955-7997(97)00018-0     Document Type: Article

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