A compact RBF-FD based meshless method for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part M: Journal of Engineering for the Maritime Environment

Volumn 223, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 275-290

  Chinchapatnam, P P ^a   Djidjeli, K ^b   Nair, P B ^b   Tan, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Finite difference; Fluid structure interaction, stream function; Incompressible Navier Stokes equations; Meshless method; Radial basis functions

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE; FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION, STREAM FUNCTION; INCOMPRESSIBLE NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; MESHLESS METHOD; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTIONS; INCOMPRESSIBLE NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; INCOMPRESSIBLE NAVIER-STOKES; MESH-LESS METHODS; NO-SLIP BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; SPATIAL DISCRETIZATIONS; STREAM FUNCTION VORTICITY; STREAMFUNCTIONS;

DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; EULER EQUATIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; FLUIDS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; VISCOUS FLOW; VORTEX FLOW; BENCHMARKING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FUNCTIONS;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 70349304420     PISSN: 14750902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/14750902JEME151     Document Type: Article

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