Adjoint-based error estimation and grid adaptation for functional outputs: Application to two-dimensional, inviscid, incompressible flows

Computers and Fluids

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 320-332

  Balasubramanian, R ^a   Newman III, J C ^b  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ADAPTATION PARAMETERS; ADAPTIVE APPROACHES; ADAPTIVE PROCEDURES; ADJOINT; ADJOINT VARIABLES; CORRECTION PROCEDURES; ERROR ESTIMATES; ERROR ESTIMATIONS; FLOW SOLUTIONS; FUNCTIONAL ESTIMATES; FUNCTIONAL OUTPUTS; GLOBAL ERRORS; GRID ADAPTATIONS; LIFT AND DRAGS; OUTPUT FUNCTIONS; RESIDUAL ERRORS; WEIGHT FUNCTIONS;

ERROR CORRECTION;

EID: 55949085428     PISSN: 00457930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2008.04.003     Document Type: Article

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