TOMCAT - a code for numerical generation of boundary-fitted curvilinear coordinate systems on fields containing any number of arbitrary two- dimensional bodies

DOI10.1016/0021-9991(77)90038-9zbMath0363.76001OpenAlexW2037051130MaRDI QIDQ1240616

Joe F. Thompson, Frank C. Thames, C. Wayne Mastin

Publication date: 1977

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9991(77)90038-9

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-04) Algorithms in computer science (68W99) Graphical methods in numerical analysis (65S05)

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