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Progress on adaptive hp-finite element methods for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations

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This paper outlines recent results obtained in the development and application of hp-adaptive finite element methods to three-dimensional problems in incompressible viscous flow simulation.

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Communicated by T. E. Tezduyar, June 21, 1992

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Oden, J.T., Kennon, S.R., Tworzydlo, W.W. et al. Progress on adaptive hp-finite element methods for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. Computational Mechanics 11, 421–432 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00350097

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