Comparison of node-centered and cell-centered unstructured finite-volume discretizations. Part I: Viscous fluxes

47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Diskin, Boris ^a,b   Thomas, James L ^c   Nielsen, Eric J ^c   Nishikawa, Hiroaki ^a   White, Jeffery A ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AEROSPACE   (United States)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC GRID; ARBITRARY MIXTURES; AVERAGING METHOD; CELL-CENTERED APPROACHES; CELL-CENTERED SCHEME; DEGREE OF FREEDOM; DISCRETIZATION ERRORS; DISCRETIZATIONS; DISTANCE FUNCTIONS; EXACT SOLUTION; FINITE-VOLUME; GRID ADAPTATION; GRID POINTS; HIGH-REYNOLDS NUMBER; IRREGULAR GRIDS; LEAST SQUARE METHODS; LEAST SQUARES; LOCAL MAPPING; NUMBER OF DEGREES OF FREEDOM; PRACTICAL SCHEMES; RANDOM PERTURBATIONS; SECOND ORDER CONVERGENCE; SECOND ORDERS; STRONG COUPLING; SURFACE-BASED; TWO-DIMENSION; UNSTRUCTURED GRID;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; LINEARIZATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

ANISOTROPY;

EID: 78549275783     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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