Comparison of grid-definition schemes for Monte Carlo simulations

Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 296-303

  Nance, Robert P ^a,c   Wilmoth, Richard G ^b,c   Hassan, H A ^a,c  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

GRID DEFINITION SCHEMES; SPATIAL DISCRETIZATION APPROACHES; STRUCTURED BODY FITTED GRID; UNIFORM CARTESIAN GRID; UNSTRUCTURED TETRAHEDRAL GRID;

HYPERSONIC FLOW;

GRIDS; SIMULATION-MONTE CARLO;

EID: 0031126257     PISSN: 08878722     EISSN: 15336808     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.6237     Document Type: Review

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