Development of a fully coupled control-volume finite element method for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 621-644

  Ammara, Idriss ^a   Masson, Christian ^a  

^a ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Control volume finite element method; Incompressible Navier Stokes; Poisson pressure equation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LINEAR SYSTEMS; POISSON EQUATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

CAVITY PROBLEMS;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

CIRCULAR CYLINDER; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW AROUND OBJECT; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLUID; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 1142293838     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.662     Document Type: Article

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