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Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B: Fundamentals
An International Journal of Computation and Methodology
Volume 72, 2017 - Issue 1
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Implementation of boundary conditions in pressure-based finite volume methods on unstructured grids

Pages 82-107 | Received 08 Feb 2017, Accepted 16 May 2017, Published online: 26 Jun 2017

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