A higher-order discontinuous enrichment method for the solution of high Péclet advection-diffusion problems on unstructured meshes

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 604-636

  Farhat, C ^a,b   Kalashnikova, I ^b   Tezaur, R ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Advection diffusion; Discontinuous enrichment method; Discontinuous galerkin method; High p clet number; High order; Lagrange multipliers

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION - DIFFUSION; ADVECTION DIFFUSION EQUATION; ADVECTION-DIFFUSION PROBLEM; BENCH-MARK PROBLEMS; DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHOD; DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT SOLUTION; FLOW DIRECTION; FREE SPACE; GALERKIN; HIGH-ORDER; HIGHER ORDER; NUMERICAL TESTS; STEEP GRADIENTS; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES;

ADVECTION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DIFFUSION; EXPONENTIAL FUNCTIONS; GALERKIN METHODS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION;

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

EID: 74249085259     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.2706     Document Type: Article

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