Numerical solution of thermal convection problems using the multidomain boundary element method

Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 469-489

  Florez, W F ^a   Power, H ^b   Chejne, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PONTIFICIA BOLIVARIANA   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boundary element method; Domain decomposition; Dual reciprocity; Momentum and energy equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036644554     PISSN: 0749159X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/num.10016     Document Type: Article

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