A MULTIGRID SOLUTION, BASED ON THE FINITE ELEMENT METHOD, FOR THE NAVIER‐STOKES EQUATIONS
J.Y. XIA
(Departments of Materials Engineering and Civil Engineering, University College of Swansea, Singleton Park,Swansea SA2 8PP, UK)
C. TAYLOR
(Departments of Materials Engineering and Civil Engineering, University College of Swansea, Singleton Park,Swansea SA2 8PP, UK)
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Abstract
A multigrid algorithm, in conjunction with the finite element method, is proposed and applied to the Navier‐Stokes (N‐S) equations. A smoothing process is effected using a preconditioned conjugate gradient solution method and the technique is demonstrated by solving laminar flow problems.
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Citation
XIA, J.Y. and TAYLOR, C. (1992), "A MULTIGRID SOLUTION, BASED ON THE FINITE ELEMENT METHOD, FOR THE NAVIER‐STOKES EQUATIONS", Engineering Computations, Vol. 9 No. 4, pp. 469-475. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb023878
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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