Development and verification of a coupled DSMC-NS scheme using unstructured mesh

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 219, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 579-607

  Wu, J S ^a   Lian, Y Y ^a   Cheng, G ^b   Koomullil, R P ^b   Tseng, K C ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupled method; Direct simulation Monte Carlo; Navier Stokes solver; Rarefied gas flow; Supersonic flows

Indexed keywords

ITERATIVE METHODS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; SUPERSONIC AERODYNAMICS; SUPERSONIC FLOW;

COUPLED METHOD; DIRECT SIMULATION MONTE CARLO; GRID TOPOLOGY; HIGH SPEED; NAVIER-STOKES SOLVER; PARALLEL-COUPLED; RAREFIED GAS FLOW; THREE DIMENSIONAL UNSTRUCTURED GRID; TRANSLATIONAL TEMPERATURE; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES;

FLOW OF GASES;

EID: 33750622113     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2006.04.013     Document Type: Article

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