Treatment of checkerboard pressure in the collocated unstructured finite-volume scheme

Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B: Fundamentals

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 121-144

  Larmaei, M Moradi ^a   Behzadi, J ^b   Mahdi, Tew Fik ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b SHAHID CHAMRAN UNIVERSITY OF AHVAZ   (Iran)

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Indexed keywords

CELL FACES; CORRECTION TERMS; FINITE VOLUME SCHEMES; MULTIBLOCKS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PRESSURE FIELD; RELAXATION FACTORS; TRIANGULATION METHOD;

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EID: 77956597857     PISSN: 10407790     EISSN: 15210626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407790.2010.511957     Document Type: Article

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