Experiments with several elements for viscous incompressible flows
Abstract
A numerical procedure to eliminate internal nodes from elements designed to approximate incompressible flow problems is presented. Six elements in academic and industrial flow problems are compared, and their relative qualities are discussed. A surprising conclusion is that richer elements may behave less well than simple ones if a good enforcement of incompressibility is not maintained.
- Publication:
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International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids
- Pub Date:
- October 1985
- DOI:
- 10.1002/fld.1650051005
- Bibcode:
- 1985IJNMF...5..911F
- Keywords:
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- Computational Fluid Dynamics;
- Finite Element Method;
- Incompressible Flow;
- Viscous Flow;
- Airfoil Profiles;
- Cascade Flow;
- Laminar Flow;
- Numerical Flow Visualization;
- Reynolds Number;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer