The least-squares meshfree method for the steady incompressible viscous flow

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 206, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 182-207

  Zhang, Xiang Kun ^a   Kwon, Kie Chan ^a   Youn, Sung Kie ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Equal order interpolations; Error estimates; Incompressible Navier Stokes equations; Least squares; Meshfree method; Moving least squares approximation; Stokes equation

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR CYLINDERS; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VISCOUS FLOW;

EQUAL-ORDER INTERPOLATION; ERROR ESTIMATES; INCOMPRESSIBLE (NAVIER )STOKES EQUATION; INCOMPRESSIBLE NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; LEAST SQUARE; LEAST-SQUARES MESHFREE METHOD; MESHFREE METHODS; MOVING LEAST SQUARE APPROXIMATION; STEADY INCOMPRESSIBLE VISCOUS FLOWS; STOKES EQUATIONS;

LINEAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 39749187633     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2004.11.033     Document Type: Article

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