Single grid error estimation using error transport equation

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 778-790

  Celik, Ismail ^a   Hu, Gusheng ^a  

^a West Virginia University   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational Fluid Dynamics; Discretization Error; Error Transport Equation; Numerical Uncertainty; Single Grid Error Estimator

Indexed keywords

DISCRETIZATION ERRORS; ERROR TRANSPORT EQUATION; NUMERICAL UNCERTAINTY; SINGLE GRID ERROR ESTIMATORS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CODES (SYMBOLS); ERROR ANALYSIS; EXTRAPOLATION; HEAT CONVECTION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 11144285866     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1792254     Document Type: Article

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