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The Finite Element Method in Viscous Incompressible Flows

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Recent Advances in Computational Fluid Dynamics

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Engineering ((LNENG,volume 43))

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My “assignment” from the conference organizers was to prepare an overview and/or tutorial lecture on the subject in the title. I chose to emphasize “tutorial” and in a way that I believe is useful; i.e., it is not a survey of the field nor of its historical development.

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  1. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA

    Philip M. Gresho

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  1. Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

    C. C. Chao

  2. Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

    S. A. Orszag

  3. Department of Aerospace Engineering, Mechanics and Engineering Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA

    W. Shyy

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Gresho, P.M. (1989). The Finite Element Method in Viscous Incompressible Flows. In: Chao, C.C., Orszag, S.A., Shyy, W. (eds) Recent Advances in Computational Fluid Dynamics. Lecture Notes in Engineering, vol 43. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83733-3_8

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