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Viscous stress relaxation, characteristics, and numerical boundary conditions
Author(s) -
Trapp John A.,
Ransom Victor H.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
numerical methods for partial differential equations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.901
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1098-2426
pISSN - 0749-159X
DOI - 10.1002/num.1690100309
Subject(s) - mathematics , relaxation (psychology) , elasticity (physics) , boundary value problem , mathematical analysis , boundary (topology) , physics , thermodynamics , psychology , social psychology
The anomalous infinite propagation speeds in the classical parabolic flow equations are removed by the inclusion of a small amount of fluid elasticity or viscous stress relaxation. The inclusion of such effects results in a hyperbolic system of equations with a complete set of characteristic equations. The directional characteristic equations are used to give insights into the appropriate boundary molecules to be used in finite difference numerical schemes. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.