Assessment of numerical uncertainty for the calculations of turbulent flow over a backward-facing step

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1015-1031

  Celik, Ismail B ^a   Li, Jun ^a  

^a West Virginia University   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Discretization error; Flow over a backward facing step; Grid convergence; Numerical uncertainty; Richardson extrapolation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ESTIMATION; EXTRAPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

DISCRETIZATION ERROR; GRID CONVERGENCE; NUMERICAL UNCERTAINTY; RICHARDSON EXTRAPOLATION;

TURBULENT FLOW;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 28144454443     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.1040     Document Type: Article

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