Two new upwind difference schemes for a coupled system of convection-diffusion equations arising from the steady MHD duct flow problems

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 229, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 9216-9234

  Hsieh, Po Wen ^a   Yang, Suh Yuh ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Boundary layers; Convection diffusion equations; Duct flows; Hartmann numbers; Magnetohydrodynamic equations; Upwind difference schemes

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; DUCTS; HEAT CONVECTION; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CONVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; CONVECTION-DOMINATED; COUPLED SYSTEMS; DUCT FLOW; FLOW PROBLEMS; HARTMANN NUMBERS; LOCALISED; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC EQUATIONS; TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC FIELD; UPWIND DIFFERENCE SCHEME;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

EID: 77957755042     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2010.08.034     Document Type: Article

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