On spurious behavior of CFD simulations

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 675-711

  Yee, H C ^a   Torczynski, J R ^b   Morton, S A ^c   Visbal, M R ^c   Sweby, P K ^d  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Numerical simulation; Spurious behavior

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; INTEGRATION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; VORTEX FLOW;

NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SPURIOUS BEHAVIOR;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; NONLINEARITY;

EID: 0033618518     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0363(19990730)30:6<675::AID-FLD857>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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