A Perspective on Unstructured Grid Flow Solvers.

Abstract

This survey paper assesses the status of compressible Euler and Navier-Stokes solvers on unstructured grids. Different spatial and temporal discretization options for steady and unsteady flows are discussed. The integration of thes components into an overall framework to solve practical problems is addressed. Issues such as grid adaptation, higher order methods, hybrid discretizations and parallel computing are briefly discussed. Finally some outstanding issues and future research directions are presented. (AN)

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA292120

Entities

People

  • V. Venkatakrishnan

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Differential Equations
  • Euler Equations
  • Finite Element Analysis
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Hydrodynamics
  • Numerical Analysis
  • Parallel Computing
  • Three Dimensional
  • Unsteady Flow
  • Viscous Flow

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Systems Analysis and Design