A cut-cell non-conforming Cartesian mesh method for compressible and incompressible flow

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 72, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1332-1354

  Pattinson, J ^a   Malan, A G ^a   Meyer, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Agglomerated FAS multigrid; Altenative dual mesh constructing strategy; Artificial compressibility; Cut cell non conforming Cartesian meshes; Inviscid compressible and incompressible flow

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; MESH GENERATION; SUPERSONIC FLOW;

CUT-CELL NON-CONFORMING CARTESIAN MESH; FULL APPROXIMATION STORAGE MULTIGRID;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; MESH GENERATION; SUPERSONIC FLOW;

EID: 37349108648     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.2048     Document Type: Article

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