On the relationship between mesh refinement and solution accuracy

17th AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Baker, Timothy J ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; EXTRAPOLATION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; MESH GENERATION;

AERODYNAMIC DESIGNS; CFD COMPUTATION; DISCRETIZED EQUATIONS; ERROR REDUCTION; MESH REFINEMENT; MESH RESOLUTION; RICHARDSON EXTRAPOLATION; SOLUTION ACCURACY;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 85087189689     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2005-4875     Document Type: Conference Paper

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