A FEniCS-based programming framework for modeling turbulent flow by the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1082-1101

  Mortensen, Mikael ^a,b   Langtangen, Hans Petter ^b,c   Wells, Garth N ^d  

^a NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT FFI   (Norway)

^b SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Finite elements; Object oriented programming; Problem solving environment; Python; RANS models; Turbulent flow

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE PROPERTIES; FINITE ELEMENT; MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION; NON-LINEAR SOLVER; NONLINEAR PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION METHOD; PROBLEM SOLVING ENVIRONMENT; PROGRAMMABLE SOFTWARE; PROGRAMMING FRAMEWORK; PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUE; PYTHON; RANS MODELS; REUSABLE CODE; REYNOLDS AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES EQUATION; REYNOLDS-AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES;

EXPERIMENTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; TURBULENCE MODELS; TURBULENT FLOW;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW MODELING; LINEARITY; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SOFTWARE; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 80052826347     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2011.02.013     Document Type: Article

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