ADAPTIVE FINITE-ELEMENT METHODS FOR THE ANALYSIS OF INVISCID COMPRESSIBLE FLOW .1. FAST REFINEMENT UNREFINEMENT AND MOVING MESH METHODS FOR UNSTRUCTURED MESHES Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • New adaptive finite element methods are presented for the analysis of unsteady inviscid compressible flow in arbitrary two-dimensional domains. The procedures described herein are used in conjunction with a semi-explicit two-step algorithm for solving the time-dependent Euler equations in two space dimensions. Two schemes are presented for monitoring the evolution of error, and error estimates are used as a basis for a mesh refinement strategy. The capability of unrefinement (adaptively coarsening the mesh) is also included. The methods do not require a structured mesh and are applicable to quite general geometries. 1986.

published proceedings

  • COMPUTER METHODS IN APPLIED MECHANICS AND ENGINEERING

author list (cited authors)

  • ODEN, J. T., STROUBOULIS, T., & DEVLOO, P.

citation count

  • 92

complete list of authors

  • ODEN, JT||STROUBOULIS, T||DEVLOO, P

publication date

  • January 1986