Discontinuous Galerkin finite element approximation of the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations in stream-function formulation

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 447-459

  Mozolevski, Igor ^a   Süli, Endre ^b   Bösing, Paulo Rafael ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discontinuous Galerkin finite element method; Incompressible flow; Navier Stokes equations; Stream function formulation

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GALERKIN METHODS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

CAVITY FLOW; DISCONTINUOUS GALERKING FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; STREAM-FUNCTION FORMULATION;

INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GALERKIN METHODS; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 34250353083     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: 10990887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.944     Document Type: Conference Paper

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