Numerical Treatment of Arbitrarily-Shaped Regions in Fluid Dynamics.

Abstract

This paper addresses the need for improving and automating the numerical definition of arbitrarily-shaped flow regions and body surfaces for practical aerodynamic and hydrodynamic flow calculations. New techniques are described to use computers to generate accurate discretizations of complicated flow domains from a limited amout of input data. These methods improve both the speed and accuracy of solving complex flow problems. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA041741

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  • David W Taylor
  • Joanna W. Schot

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Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cartesian Coordinates
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Differential Equations
  • Equations
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Geometry
  • Graphics
  • Hydrodynamics
  • Navier Stokes Equations
  • Potential Flow
  • Shape
  • Structural Analysis
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional

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  • Physics

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  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Systems Analysis and Design