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Streamline Diffusion Finite Element Methods for Incompressible and Compressible Fluid Flow

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Computational Fluid Dynamics and Reacting Gas Flows

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We give an overview of some recent theoretical and computational results for streamline diffusion finite element methods applied to the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with small viscosity and to some nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws modelling compressible flow.

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Johnson, C. (1988). Streamline Diffusion Finite Element Methods for Incompressible and Compressible Fluid Flow. In: Engquist, B., Majda, A., Luskin, M. (eds) Computational Fluid Dynamics and Reacting Gas Flows. The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 12. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3882-9_6

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