The Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) method for solving incompressible Navier-Stokes equations

CMES - Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 117-142

  Lin, H ^b   Atluri, S N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Babus ka Brezzi conditions; Incompressible flow; MLPG; MLS; Navier Stokes equations; Upwinding scheme

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037906184     PISSN: 15261492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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