A superlinearly convergent finite volume method for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations on staggered unstructured grids

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 198, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 159-177

  Vidovic D ^a   Segal, A ^a   Wesseling, P ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Finite volume method; Incompressible flow; Navier Stokes; Staggered unstructured grid; Vector field reconstruction

Indexed keywords

INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; VISCOUS FLOW;

FIELD RECONSTRUCTION; FINITE-VOLUME METHOD; INCOMPRESSIBLE (NAVIER )STOKES EQUATION; INCOMPRESSIBLE NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; LINEAR RECONSTRUCTION; NAVIER STOKES; STAGGERED UNSTRUCTURED GRID; UNSTRUCTURED GRID; VECTOR FIELD RECONSTRUCTION; VECTOR FIELDS;

FINITE VOLUME METHOD;

EID: 3042812286     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2004.01.005     Document Type: Article

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