A new shooting method for solving boundary layer equations in fluid mechanics

CMES - Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-15

  Liu, Chein Shan ^a   Chang, Chih Wen ^a   Chang, Jiang Ren ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Blasius equation; Boundary value problem; Estimation of missing initial condition; Falkner Skan equation; Lie group shooting method; One step group preserving scheme

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; CONTACTS (FLUID MECHANICS); DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FLUID MECHANICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS; MECHANICS; THEOREM PROVING;

BLASIUS EQUATION; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEM; FALKNER-SKAN EQUATION; LIE-GROUP SHOOTING METHOD; ONE-STEP GROUP PRESERVING SCHEME;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 56849131339     PISSN: 15261492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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