Improved formulations of the discretized pressure equation and boundary treatments in co-located equal-order control-volume finite-element methods for incompressible fluid flow

Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B: Fundamentals

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 442-472

  Lamoureux, Alexandre ^a   Baliga, B Rabi ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY TREATMENT; CO-LOCATED; CONTROL VOLUMES; CONTROL-VOLUME FINITE-ELEMENT METHODS; DIAGONALLY DOMINANT; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLUID FLOW; ITERATIVE SOLUTIONS; PRESSURE EQUATIONS; TEST PROBLEM; TWO-DIMENSIONAL PROBLEM;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

EID: 79958847663     PISSN: 10407790     EISSN: 15210626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407790.2011.578020     Document Type: Article

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