Anisotropic grid adaptation for functional outputs: Application to two-dimensional viscous flows

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 22-46

  Venditti, David A ^a   Darmofal, David L ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

A posteriori error estimation; Adjoint methods; Aerodynamics; Anisotropic; Computational fluid dynamics; Duality; Finite element method; Finite volume method; Functional output; Hessian; Navier Stokes; Turbulent flow; Unstructured grid adaptation; Viscous flow

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DRAG COEFFICIENT; ERRORS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; VISCOUS FLOW;

A-POSTERIORI ERROR ESTIMATIONS; ADJOINT METHODS; ANISOTROPIC; DUALITY; FINITE-VOLUME METHOD; FUNCTIONAL OUTPUTS; GRID ADAPTATION; HESSIAN; NAVIER STOKES; UNSTRUCTURED GRID; UNSTRUCTURED GRID ADAPTATION;

FINITE VOLUME METHOD;

EID: 0037406386     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9991(03)00074-3     Document Type: Article

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