An accurate gradient and Hessian reconstruction method for cell-centered finite volume discretizations on general unstructured grids

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 945-962

  Betchen, Lee J ^a   Straatman, Anthony G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Finite volume discretization; Gradient reconstruction; Hessian tensor; Unstructured grids

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY PRECISION; COEFFICIENT MATRIX; FINITE VOLUME; FINITE VOLUME DISCRETIZATION; FINITE VOLUME DISCRETIZATIONS; FIRST-ORDER; GAUSS' THEOREM; GRADIENT COMPONENT; INDEPENDENT COMPONENTS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; SECOND ORDERS; SPARSE MATRICES; UNSTRUCTURED GRID;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; LINEAR SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; REPAIR; VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

TENSORS;

EID: 77950115142     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: 10970363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.2050     Document Type: Article

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