Study on flow past two spheres in tandem arrangement using a local mesh refinement virtual boundary method

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 465-488

  Zou, Jian Feng ^a   Ren, An Lu ^a   Deng, Jian ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Flow past two spheres; Local mesh refinement; Virtual boundary method

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW PATTERNS; INTERPOLATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; TRANSITION FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

FLOW PAST TWO SPHERES; LOCAL MECH REFINEMENT; TANDEM ARRANGEMENT; VIRTUAL BOUNDARY METHOD; VORTICAL STRUCTURE;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

AXISYMMETRIC FLOW; FLOW AROUND OBJECT; FLOW PATTERN; MATHEMATICAL METHOD; VORTEX SHEDDING;

EID: 25844445865     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.998     Document Type: Article

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