Pressure separation - A technique for improving the velocity error in finite element discretisations of the Navier-Stokes equations

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 165, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 275-290

  Ganesan, Sashikumaar ^a   John, Volker ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Error reduction; Finite element methods; Low order non conforming discretisations; Pressure separation; Steady state Navier Stokes equations

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; PROBLEM SOLVING; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

ERROR REDUCTION; LOW ORDER NON-CONFORMING DISCRETIZATIONS; PRESSURE SEPARATION; STEADY STATE NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 17644369638     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2004.04.071     Document Type: Article

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