Anisotropic mesh adaptation: Towards user-independent, mesh-independent and solver-independent CFD. Part I: General principles

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 725-744

  Habashi, Wagdi G ^a   Dompierre, Julien ^a,d   Bourgault, Yves ^a,e   Ait Ali Yahia, Djaffar ^a,f   Fortin, Michel ^b   Vallet, Marie Gabrielle ^c,d  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^d Centre de Recherche en Calcul Applique   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^f PRATT AND WHITNEY CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

A posterori error estimation; Edge based error estimator; Mesh adaptation; Mesh solver coupling; Spring analogy; Structured and unstructured grids

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; VISCOSITY; VISCOUS FLOW;

A POSTERIORI ERROR ESTIMATION; ARTIFICIAL VISCOSITY; EDGE BASED ERROR ESTIMATOR; MESH ADAPTATION; MESH OPTIMIZATION METHODOLOGY; MESH SOLVER COUPLING; SPRING ANALOGY; STRUCTURED GRID; UNSTRUCTURED GRID;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL METHOD; MODELING ERROR;

EID: 0034161524     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0363(20000330)32:6<725::AID-FLD935>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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