A staggered control volume scheme for unstructured triangular grids

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 697-717

  Rida, S ^a   Mckenty, F ^a   Meng, F L ^a   Reggio, M ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Control volume; Incompressible flow; Staggered grid; Unstructured mesh

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONS; INTEGRATION; INTERPOLATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PIPE FLOW;

GRID CONVERGENCE; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; IRREGULARLY SHAPE DOMAINS; MOMENTUM EQUATIONS; STAGGERED CONTROL VOLUME METHOD;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

CONTROL ALGORITHM; GRID; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; MODELING; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS;

CONTROL VOLUME; FLOW MODELLING; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; TRIANGULAR GRIDS;

EID: 0031235483     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0363(19970930)25:6<697::aid-fld583>3.0.co;2-r     Document Type: Article

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