Viscous flow in domains with corners: Numerical artifacts, their origin and removal

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 200, Issue 9-12, 2011, Pages 1087-1099

  Sprittles, J E ^a   Shikhmurzaev, Y D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynamic wetting; Finite element; Fluid mechanics; Viscous corner flow

Indexed keywords

CORNER ANGLE; CORNER FLOW; DOMAINS WITH CORNERS; DYNAMIC WETTING; EIGENSOLUTION; FINITE ELEMENT; FREE-SURFACE FLOW; INHOMOGENEOUS PROBLEMS; MESH-DEPENDENCE; MULTI-PHYSICS; NUMERICAL CODE; NUMERICAL ERRORS; PRESSURE SPIKE; STOKES FLOWS; TANGENTIAL VELOCITIES;

CONTACTS (FLUID MECHANICS); DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; FLUIDS; VELOCITY; VISCOSITY; VISCOUS FLOW; WETTING;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 78650957698     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2010.12.005     Document Type: Article

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