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Flow Solvers and Validation

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Up to this point, we have reviewed numerical algorithms for computing viscous incompressible flows, primarily using primitive variables along with finite difference and finite volume frameworks. The solution methods for incompressible flows are based on the assumption that the flow can be approximated by incompressible Navier–Stokes equations. Once a solution algorithm is developed, flow solvers and software procedures need to be developed to compute fluid dynamic problems. This process includes setting up the problem, solving the flow with the proper initial and boundary conditions, and then post-processing the computed results. These solutions include several levels of approximations including algorithmic, geometry-related and physical-modeling related approximations.

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  2. NASA Ames Research Center, Applied Modeling & Simulations Branch, Mail Stop 258-2 Bldg.258, 94035-0001, Moffett Field, USA

    Cetin C. Kiris

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Kwak, D., Kiris, C.C. (2011). Flow Solvers and Validation. In: Computation of Viscous Incompressible Flows. Scientific Computation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0193-9_5

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