NASA tetrahedral unstructed software system (TetrUSS)

Aeronautical Journal

Volumn 104, Issue 1040, 2000, Pages 491-499

  Frink, N T ^a   Pirzadeh, S Z ^a   Parikh, P C ^a   Pandya, M J ^b   Bhat, M K ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Paragon Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTATIONAL AERODYNAMIC ANALYSIS; TETRAHEDRAL UNSTRUCTED SOFTWARE SYSTEM;

AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 0034290736     PISSN: 00019240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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