Unified solver for rarefied and continuum flows with adaptive mesh and algorithm refinement

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 223, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 589-608

  Kolobov, V I ^a   Arslanbekov, R R ^a   Aristov, V V ^b   Frolova, A A ^b   Zabelok, S A ^b  

^a CFD RESEARCH CORPORATION   (United States)

^b DORODNICYN COMPUTING CENTER   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Adaptive mesh and algorithm refinement; Boltzmann kinetic equation; Hybrid methods; Rarefied gas dynamics; Unified flow solver

Indexed keywords

BOLTZMANN EQUATION; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHODS; FLOW SIMULATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; KINETIC THEORY; KINETICS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT; ALGORITHM REFINEMENT; BOLTZMANN KINETIC EQUATIONS; CONTINUUM FLOW; CONTINUUM MODEL; FLOW DOMAINS; HYBRID METHOD; RAREFIED FLOW; RAREFIED GAS DYNAMICS; UNIFIED FLOW SOLVERS;

MESH GENERATION;

EID: 33947143699     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2006.09.021     Document Type: Article

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