A spectral element method for fluid dynamics: Laminar flow in a channel expansion

1984/06/01 by Anthony T Patera, Anthony T. Patera · 2,308 citations
Engineering · Mathematics · #Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics #Collocation (remote sensing) #Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics #Computer science #Discretization #Finite element method #Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows #Geometry #Laminar flow #Mathematical analysis #Mathematics #Mechanics #Mixed finite element method #Physics #Pressure-correction method #Projection method #Spectral element method #Spectral method

paper · doi:10.1016/0021-9991(84)90128-1

published in Journal of Computational Physics 54(3), 468-488 (Elsevier BV)

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