A Compact Fourth-Order Finite Difference Scheme for Unsteady Viscous Incompressible Flows

Journal of Scientific Computing

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 29-45

  Li, Ming ^a   Tang, Tao ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Compact scheme; Navier Stokes equations; Streamfunction; Vorticity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042696191     PISSN: 08857474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011146429794     Document Type: Article

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