A parallel Galerkin boundary element method for surface radiation and mixed heat transfer calculations in complex 3-D geometries

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2020-2044

  Cui, X ^a   Li, B Q ^a  

^a Washington State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary element; Galerkin; Grey surface; Mixed heat transfer; Parallel computation; Radiation exchange; View factor

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA STRUCTURES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEAT TRANSFER; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RADIATION; SURFACE REACTIONS;

ADAPTIVE INTEGRATION; COMPUTATIONAL ALGORITHMS; SURFACE RADIATION;

GALERKIN METHODS;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEAT TRANSFER; MIXED CONVECTION;

EID: 10244265872     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.1143     Document Type: Article

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