A streamline upwind finite element method for laminar and turbulent flow
Abstract
A finite element method was developed for the analysis of steady state, two-dimensional viscous fluid flow. The method is capable of predicting both laminar and turbulent flows in complex geometries. It also facilitates application of boundary conditions. A streamline upwind approximation is developed for representing the advection terms in the governing transport equations. A new velocity-pressure solution algorithm is also proposed.
- Publication:
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Ph.D. Thesis
- Pub Date:
- 1986
- Bibcode:
- 1986PhDT........41S
- Keywords:
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- Finite Element Method;
- Laminar Flow;
- Streamlining;
- Turbulent Flow;
- Advection;
- Algorithms;
- Flow Velocity;
- Pressure;
- Turbomachinery;
- Two Dimensional Flow;
- Viscous Flow;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer