On the extension of the Boussinesq approximation for inertia dominated flows

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Shirgaonkar, Anup A ^a   Lele, Sanjiva K ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial for Computational and Mathematical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPRESSIBILITY; ENTROPY; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; THERMAL STRATIFICATION;

BOUSSINESQ APPROXIMATION; DENSITY PERTURBATIONS; FLOW INERTIA; SHALLOW FLOWS;

INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW;

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPRESSIBILITY; ENTROPY; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; THERMAL STRATIFICATION;

EID: 33745592731     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2206188     Document Type: Article

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