Use of a spreadsheet package to demonstrate fundamentals of computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer

International Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 974-983

  Schumack, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRID FORMULATION; SPREADSHEET PACKAGE; STOKES EQUATION; VISUAL PRESENTATION;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HEAT TRANSFER; PROBLEM SOLVING; STUDENTS;

SPREADSHEETS;

EID: 10044256645     PISSN: 0949149X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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