Characteristics-based finite-volume solution for natural convection around a horizontal cylinder

Journal of Applied Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1905-1911

  Razavi, Seyed Esmail ^a   Barar, Farzad ^a   Farhangmehr, Vahid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

Author keywords

Artificial Compressibility Method (ACM); Characteristics Based (CB) method; Incompressible flows; Natural convection; Runge Kutta scheme

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL COMPRESSIBILITY METHOD; CHARACTERISTICS-BASED (CB) METHOD; CONVERGENCE ACCELERATION; HORIZONTAL CIRCULAR CYLINDERS; INCOMPRESSIBLE VISCOUS FLOWS; NATURAL CONVECTION FLOW; RUNGE-KUTTA SCHEMES; SECOND-ORDER TECHNIQUES;

CIRCULAR CYLINDERS; COMPRESSIBILITY; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

EID: 46149111011     PISSN: 18125654     EISSN: 18125662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2008.1905.1911     Document Type: Article

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