Upwind differencing, false scaling, and nonphysical solutions to the driven cavity problem

DOI10.1016/0021-9991(82)90082-1zbMath0493.76028MaRDI QIDQ1168831

John C. Strikwerda

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)90082-1

zbMATH Keywords

artificial viscosity; driven cavity problem; multi-dimensional; upwind finite difference; natural length scales

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76D05: Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids

76M99: Basic methods in fluid mechanics

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