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Original Articles

EXAMINATION OF THE UPWIND ( DONOR-CELL) FORMULATION IN CONTROL VOLUME FINITE-ELEMENT METHODS FOR FLUID FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER

Pages 401-416 | Received 10 Nov 1986, Accepted 12 Dec 1986, Published online: 05 Apr 2007
 

Abstract

The upwind ( donor-cell) methodology has been explored in the framework of control volume-based finite-element methods using triangular elements. The key advantage of the upwind procedure is that it ensures positive discretization coefficients and hence a stable numerical analog that avoids any undershoots/overshoots. However, the upwind procedure does increase the cross-wind diffusion. Four test problems are solved to study the performance of the scheme.

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