An overset-grid method for 3D unsteady incompressible flows

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 567-600

  Tang, H S ^a   Jones, S Casey ^a   Sotiropoulos, Fotis ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial compressibility method; Chimera grids; Dual time stepping; Grid interfaces; Incompressible Navier Stokes equations; Multigrid acceleration; Overset grids

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR CYLINDERS; COMPRESSIBILITY; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; INTERPOLATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ARTIFICIAL COMPRESSIBILITY METHOD; CHIMERA GRIDS; COMPLEX GEOMETRIES; DUAL TIME STEPPING; GRID INTERFACES; INCOMPRESSIBLE (NAVIER )STOKES EQUATION; INCOMPRESSIBLE NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; MULTIGRID ACCELERATION; OVERSET GRID; OVERSET GRID METHODS;

INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW;

EID: 0142167181     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9991(03)00331-0     Document Type: Article

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