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A perspective on high-order methods in computational fluid dynamics

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There has been an intensive international effort to develop high-order Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) methods into design tools in aerospace engineering during the last one and half decades. These methods offer the potential to significantly improve solution accuracy and efficiency for vortex dominated turbulent flows. Enough progresses have been made in algorithm development, mesh generation and parallel computing that these methods are on the verge of being applied in a production design environment. Since many review papers have been written on the subject, I decide to offer a personal perspective on the state-of-the-art in high-order CFD methods and the challenges that must be overcome.

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Wang, Z. A perspective on high-order methods in computational fluid dynamics. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 59, 614701 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-015-5706-3

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