Basic Control Volume Finite Element Methods for Fluids and Solids

Download or read book Basic Control Volume Finite Element Methods for Fluids and Solids written by Vaughan R. Voller and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2009 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Control Volume Finite Element Method (CVFEM) is a hybrid numerical methods, combining the physics intuition of Control Volume Methods with the geometric flexibility of Finite Element Methods. The concept of this monograph is to introduce a common framework for the CVFEM solution so that it can be applied to both fluid flow and solid mechanics problems. To emphasize the essential ingredients, discussion focuses on the application to problems in two-dimensional domains which are discretized with linear-triangular meshes. This allows for a straightforward provision of the key information required to fully construct working CVFEM solutions of basic fluid flow and solid mechanics problems.