Particle trajectory calculations with a two-step three-time level semi-Lagrangian scheme well suited for curved flows

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 995-1028

  de Almeida, Ricardo Carvalho ^a   Siqueira Costa, Giovana Aráujo ^b   da Fonseca, Luiz Claudio Monteiro ^b   Drummond Alves, José Luis ^b  

^a PPGIA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Explicit time integration; Finite difference methods; Hyperbolic equations; Lagrangian; Partial differential equations; Stability

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DISPLACEMENT; COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT; COMPUTATIONAL OVERHEADS; COURANT NUMBERS; EULERIAN METHOD; EXPLICIT TIME INTEGRATION; FLOW CURVATURE; GAUSSIANS; HYPERBOLIC EQUATIONS; LAGRANGIAN; NON-LINEAR; PARTICLE TRAJECTORIES; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SCALAR FIELDS; SEMI-LAGRANGIAN SCHEME; TIME LEVEL; TIME STEP;

ADVECTION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; EXPERIMENTS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

EID: 74949089980     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: 10970363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.1993     Document Type: Article

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