Boundary-fitted coordinate systems for numerical solution of partial differential equations. A review

DOI10.1016/0021-9991(82)90066-3zbMath0492.65011MaRDI QIDQ1168040

Joe F. Thompson, C. Wayne Mastin, Zahir U. A. Warsi

Publication date: 1982

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9991(82)90066-3

zbMATH Keywords

conformal mapping; error analysis; moving boundaries; review; orthogonal systems; boundary-fitted coordinate systems; coordinate line spacing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

65-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to numerical analysis

65D15: Algorithms for approximation of functions

65Z05: Applications to the sciences

65N99: Numerical methods for partial differential equations, boundary value problems

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