On the use of general elements in fluid dynamics simulations

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 435-448

  Chalasani, S ^a,b   Senguttuvan, V ^a,c   Thompson, D ^a   Luke, E ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SYNOPSYS INC   (United States)

^c Blue Sky Studios   (United States)

Author keywords

General elements; Hybrid mesh; Solution adaptive mesh

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; DYNAMICS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS;

ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT (AMR) ALGORITHMS; FLOW SOLVERS; FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; MESH QUALITY; POLYHEDRAL ELEMENTS; SIMULATION RESULTS;

MESH GENERATION;

EID: 48949117325     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: 10990887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.1017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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