A natural element updated Lagrangian strategy for free-surface fluid dynamics

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 223, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 127-150

  Gonzalez D ^a   Cueto, E ^a   Chinesta, F ^b   Doblare M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Fluid Dynamics; Free surface flows; Meshless; Natural element method; Shapes

Indexed keywords

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

FLUID-DYNAMICS; FREE SURFACES; FREE-SURFACE FLOW; LAGRANGIAN FRAMEWORKS; MESHLESS; NATURAL ELEMENT METHOD; NATURAL ELEMENTS; NOVEL ALGORITHM; UPDATED LAGRANGIAN; Α-SHAPE;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 33947197929     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2006.09.002     Document Type: Article

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