Stable and unstable formulations of the convection operator in spectral element simulations

Applied Numerical Mathematics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 275-280

  Wilhelm, Dirk ^a   Kleiser, Leonhard ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Formulation of convection operator; Incompressible flow; Navier Stokes simulation; Numerical instability; Spectral element method

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; HEAT CONVECTION; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; LINEAR EQUATIONS; LINEARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POLYNOMIALS;

CONVECTION OPERATOR; LINEARIZED MOMENTUM EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL INSTABILITY; SPECTRAL ELEMENT SIMULATIONS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0034190405     PISSN: 01689274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9274(99)00093-8     Document Type: Article

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