Meshfree weak-strong (MWS) form method and its application to incompressible flow problems

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1025-1047

  Liu, G R ^a   Wu, Y L ^a   Ding, H ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Flow around a circular cylinder; Incompressible flow; Meshfree method; Moving least squares; MWS; Natural convection; Radial basis functions approximation; Vorticity stream function

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF FLUIDS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; VISCOUS FLOW;

LINEAR SOLID MECHANICS; MESHFREE WEAK-STRONG (MWS); NODAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW;

FLOW AROUND OBJECT; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL;

EID: 9744222922     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.785     Document Type: Article

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