Spectral simulation of thermocapillary convection with deformable free surface using boundary-fitted coordinates

Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B: Fundamentals

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 127-149

  Ahmed, I ^a   Ball, Kenneth S ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; CAPILLARY FLOW; CHEBYSHEV APPROXIMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

BOUNDARY FITTED COORDINATE (BFC) SYSTEMS; CHEBYSHEV COLLOCATION SPECTRAL METHOD; THERMOCAPILLARY CONVECTION;

HEAT CONVECTION;

EID: 0031234998     PISSN: 10407790     EISSN: 15210626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407799708915002     Document Type: Article

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