A Discontinuous Galerkin Method for the Viscous MHD Equations

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 608-641

  Warburton, T C ^a,b   Karniadakis, G E ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; GALERKIN METHODS; JACOBIAN MATRICES; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; POLYNOMIALS;

ADVECTION AND DIFFUSIONS; DISCONTINOUS GALERKIN METHODS; DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN; GALERKIN PROJECTIONS; HIGH-ORDER METHODS; HIGHER-ORDER METHODS; MHD EQUATIONS; NEW HIGH; THREE DIMENSIONS; TWO-DIMENSIONS;

CIRCULAR CYLINDERS;

EID: 0142160893     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1999.6248     Document Type: Article

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