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On the development of iterative methods with boundary condition splitting for solving boundary and initial-boundary value problems for the linearized and nonlinear Navier-Stokes equations

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An overview is presented of considerable advances made in a direction initiated by A.A. Dorodnicyn in the mid-1960s, which was found fruitful in the development of fundamentally new efficient methods for fluid dynamics problems. Most of the results described were obtained by the authors.

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Dedicated to Academician A.A. Dorodnicyn on the Occasion of the Centenary of His Birth

Original Russian Text © B.V. Pal’tsev, M.B. Solov’ev, I.I. Chechel’, 2011, published in Zhurnal Vychislitel’noi Matematiki i Matematicheskoi Fiziki, 2011, Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 74–95.

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Pal’tsev, B.V., Solov’ev, M.B. & Chechel’, I.I. On the development of iterative methods with boundary condition splitting for solving boundary and initial-boundary value problems for the linearized and nonlinear Navier-Stokes equations. Comput. Math. and Math. Phys. 51, 68–87 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S096554251101012X

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