A stable second-order mass-weighted upwind scheme for unstructured meshes

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 749-771

  Tran, Luu Dung ^a   Masson, Christian ^a   Smaïli, Arezki ^a  

^a ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

CVFEM; Second order upwind scheme

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STEADY FLOW; UNSTEADY FLOW; VISCOSITY; VORTEX SHEDDING;

CONTROL-VOLUME FINITE-ELEMENT METHOD (CVFEM); MASS-WEIGHTED UPWIND (MAW); SECOND-ORDER UPWIND SCHEME;

HEAT CONVECTION;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEAT CONVECTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STEADY FLOW; UNSTEADY FLOW; VISCOSITY; VORTEX SHEDDING;

EID: 33745574994     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: 10970363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.1146     Document Type: Article

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