An accurate, stable and efficient domain-type meshless method for the solution of MHD flow problems

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 228, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 8135-8160

  Bourantas, G C ^a   Skouras, E D ^a,b   Loukopoulos, V C ^a   Nikiforidis, G C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

Author keywords

Hartmann number; Meshless; MHD; MLS; Point collocation

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS;

DIRICHLET-NEUMANN BOUNDARY CONDITION; FLOW PROBLEMS; HARTMANN NUMBERS; MESHLESS; MESHLESS METHODS; MHD FLOW; MOVING LEAST SQUARES; NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS; POINT COLLOCATION; ROBIN BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 69949100562     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2009.07.031     Document Type: Article

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