A comparison study of the convergence characteristics and robustness for four variants of SIMPLE-family at fine grids

Engineering Computations (Swansea, Wales)

Volumn 20, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 320-340

  Zeng, M ^a   Tao, W Q ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Flow; Grids; Heat transfer; Numerical simulation

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITATION; HEAT TRANSFER; NATURAL CONVECTION; TEMPERATURE;

RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SEMI-IMPLICIT METHOD FOR PRESSURE-LINKED EQUATIONS;

EXTRAPOLATION;

EID: 0037731215     PISSN: 02644401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02644400310467234     Document Type: Article

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