A parallel boundary fitted dynamic mesh solver for applications to flapping flight

Computers and Fluids

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1592-1607

  Gopalakrishnan, Pradeep ^a   Tafti, Danesh K ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY MOVEMENT; CARTESIAN VELOCITY; CONSERVATION LAW; CROSS FLOWS; DEPENDENT VARIABLES; DYNAMIC GRID; DYNAMIC MESH; DYNAMIC MOVEMENTS; FINITE VOLUME; FLAPPING FLIGHT; FORCED TRANSVERSE OSCILLATIONS; FORWARD FLIGHT; FRUIT FLIES; GENERAL CURVILINEAR COORDINATES; MULTIBLOCK; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; STEP ALGORITHMS; UNSTEADY AERODYNAMICS;

AERODYNAMICS; AIRFOILS; GRID COMPUTING; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; INTERPOLATION; LAWS AND LEGISLATION;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 67349284056     PISSN: 00457930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2009.01.006     Document Type: Article

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