Fourth- and tenth-order compact finite difference solutions of perturbed circular vortex flows

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 603-618

  Ferreira de Sousa, P J S A ^a   Pereira, Jose C F ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Circular vortex; Compact finite differences; High order; Incompressible Navier Stokes

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; POISSON EQUATION; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; VECTORS;

CIRCULAR VORTEX; COMPACT FINITE DIFFERENCES; INCOMPRESSIBLE NAVIER-STOKES;

VORTEX FLOW;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TECHNIQUE; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 26444549106     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.1017     Document Type: Article

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