Numerical simulation of fluid flows using an unstructured finite volume method with adaptive tri-tree grids

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 403-440

  Hu, Z Z ^a   Greaves, D M ^a,b   Wu, G X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive remeshing; Finite volume method; Separated flows and vortex shedding; SIMPLE; Tri trees; Unstructured hierarchical grid

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STRUCTURES; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

CYLINDER BOUNDARY;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

FINITE VOLUME TECHNIQUE; FLOW MODELING; MATHEMATICAL METHOD; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; SEPARATING FLOW; VORTEX SHEDDING;

EID: 0037142478     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.325     Document Type: Article

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