International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow: Volume 3 Issue 1

AN ALGEBRAIC MULTIGRID SOLVER FOR THE NAVIER—STOKES EQUATIONS ON UNSTRUCTURED MESHES

R.D. LONSDALE

A simple algebraic multigrid (AMG) solver for linear equations is presented, and its performance compared with a conjugate gradient scheme. This multigrid method is extended to…

NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF TURBULENT FLUID FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER CHARACTERISTICS IN A STREAMWISE‐PERIODIC CORRUGATED DUCT WITH CONSTANT CROSS‐SECTIONAL AREA

BIJAN FARHANIEH, BENGT SUNDEN

Turbulent fully developed periodic heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics in corrugated two‐dimensional ducts with constant cross‐sectional area are numerically…

SOLUTION OF THE TWO‐DIMENSIONAL NEUTRON TRANSPORT EQUATION BY A HIERARCHICAL FINITE ELEMENT METHOD

AWONO ONANA, S. YUNKAP KWANKAM, MVOGO NGONO JOSEPH

Following the results obtained by Marchuk et al. concerning the variational principles for kinetic equations, a hierarchical finite element method is proposed for solving the…

USE OF ISOTROPIC FUNDAMENTAL SOLUTIONS FOR HEAT CONDUCTION IN ANISOTROPIC MEDIA

M.M. PEREZ, L.C. WROBEL

A numerical formulation for solving homogeneous anisotropic heat conduction problems based on the use of an isotropic fundamental solution is presented in detail. The analysis is…

AN IMPLICIT FLUX‐DIFFERENCE SPLITTING METHOD FOR SOLVING THE EULER EQUATIONS ON ADAPTIVE TRIANGULAR GRIDS

J.‐Y. TRÉPANIER, M. REGGIO, D. AIT‐ALI‐YAHIA

An implicit method for the solution of transonic flows modelled by the time‐dependent Euler equations is presented. The method is characterized by a robust linearization for…

SHORT COMMUNICATION: A COMPARISON BETWEEN BOUNDARY FITTED COORDINATE SYSTEM AND FINITE ELEMENT METHOD IN SOLVING A HEAT CONDUCTION PROBLEM

S.K. DASH, H. CHATTOPADHYAY

An attempt has been made to solve the heat conduction equation in a multiconnected domain using both boundary fitted coordinate system and finite element method. It has been found…