Discrete models for the numerical analysis of time-dependent multidimensional gas dynamics (Q1072868)

This paper explores a possible technique for extending to multidimensional flows some of the upwind-differencing methods that have proved highly successful in the one-dimensional case. Attention here is concentrated on the two-dimensional case, and the flow domain is supposed to be divided into polygonal computational elements. Inside each element the flow is represented by a local superposition of elementary solutions consisting of plane waves not necessarily aligned with the element boundaries.