Localized meshless modeling of natural-convective viscous flows

Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B: Fundamentals

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 487-509

  Divo, Eduardo ^a   Kassab, Alain J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

(0 , 1) VECTORS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS (CFD) CODES; CONVECTION HEAT TRANSFER; EXPANSION METHODS; FRACTIONAL TIME; INNER PRODUCTS; MESHLESS; MESHLESS METHOD (MM); MULTIQUADRICS (MQ); NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; RADIAL-BASIS FUNCTION (RBF); THIRD-ORDER; VISCOUS FLUIDS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DYNAMICS; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; FLUIDS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; HEAT CONVECTION; NUMERICAL METHODS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; SOLUTIONS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; VISCOUS FLOW;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 45849110687     PISSN: 10407790     EISSN: 15210626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407790802083190     Document Type: Article

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