Symmetry-preserving discretization of Navier-Stokes equations on collocated unstructured grids

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 258, Issue , 2014, Pages 246-267

  Trias, F X ^a,b   Lehmkuhl, O ^a,c   Oliva, A ^a   Perez Segarra C D ^a   Verstappen, R W C P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c TERMO FLUIDS SL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Checkerboard; Collocated formulation; Differentially heated cavity; Regularization; Symmetry preserving discretization; Unstructured grid

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

CHECKERBOARD; COLLOCATED FORMULATION; CONSERVATIVE DISCRETIZATION; DIFFERENTIALLY HEATED CAVITY; DISCRETIZATIONS; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATION; REGULARISATION; SYMMETRY-PRESERVING DISCRETIZATION; UNSTRUCTURED GRID; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 84887552796     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2013.10.031     Document Type: Article

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