23rd Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 8-13 September, 2002, Toronto, Canada
Paper ICAS 2002-1.7.1

CALCULATION OF COMPRESSIBLE AND INCOMPRESSIBLE VISCOUS FLOWS BY A VISCOUSINVISCID SPLITTING FINITE ELEMENT METHOD

J. Su
NRC, Canada

Keywords: finite element method, zonal method, viscous flow, potential flow

A viscous-inviscid splitting finite element method is developed to solve two-dimensional compressible and incompressible external flows. The outer inviscid solution is dealt with by solving the potential flow using an artificial compressibility finite element method while the inner viscous solution is obtained by solving the Navier-Stokes equations by a streamline upwind Petrov-Galerkin finite element method.

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