Information flux maximum-entropy approximation schemes for convection-diffusion problems

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 64, Issue 10-12, 2010, Pages 1180-1200

  Cyron, Christian J ^a   Nissen, Keijo ^a   Gravemeier, Volker ^a   Wall, Wolfgang A ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computational fluid mechanics; Information theory; Maximum entropy; Meshfree methods

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION SCHEME; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID MECHANICS; CONVECTION DIFFUSION PROBLEMS; INFORMATION FLUX; MAXIMUM ENTROPY; MESH-FREE METHOD; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; NUMERICAL INSTABILITY; PHYSICAL INTERPRETATION; SHANNON'S INFORMATION THEORY; STABILIZED FINITE ELEMENT METHODS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONTACTS (FLUID MECHANICS); DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; ENTROPY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLUID MECHANICS; FLUIDS; HEAT CONVECTION; INFORMATION THEORY; STABILIZATION;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 78649664505     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: 10970363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.2271     Document Type: Article

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