H-adaptive finite element solution of unsteady thermally driven cavity problem

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 172-194

  Mayne, David A ^a   Usmani, Asif S ^a   Crapper, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Finite element method; Natural convection

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PRANDTL NUMBER; PROBLEM SOLVING; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; THERMAL EFFECTS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ENERGY EQUATIONS; RAYLEIGH NUMBERS; STREAMLINE UPWINDING; THERMALLY DRIVEN CAVITY PROBLEM;

CAVITATION;

EID: 0035040989     PISSN: 09615539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09615530110381584     Document Type: Article

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