Adaptive anisotropic meshing for steady convection-dominated problems

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 198, Issue 37-40, 2009, Pages 2964-2981

  Nguyen, Hoa ^a   Gunzburger, Max ^b   Ju, Lili ^c   Burkardt, John ^d  

^a Tulane University   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Anisotropic mesh generation; Convection dominated problem; Metric tensor; Stabilized method

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MESHING; ANISOTROPIC CENTROIDAL VORONOI TESSELLATIONS; ANISOTROPIC MESH GENERATION; ANISOTROPIC MESHES; APPROXIMATE SOLUTION; CONVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; CONVECTION-DOMINATED PROBLEM; METRIC TENSOR; NUMERICAL APPROXIMATIONS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; PHYSICAL OSCILLATIONS; STABILIZED METHOD; STEADY CONVECTION; STREAMLINE UPWIND PETROV-GALERKIN METHOD;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; GALERKIN METHODS; MESH GENERATION; METRIC SYSTEM; TENSORS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 67949098964     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2009.05.001     Document Type: Article

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