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A spectral element method for fluid dynamics: Laminar flow in a channel expansion

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In this article, a spectral element method was proposed for numerical solution of the Navier-Stokes equations, where the computational domain is broken into a series of elements, and the velocity in each element is represented as a highorder Lagrangian interpolant through Chebyshev collocation points.
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This article is published in Journal of Computational Physics.The article was published on 1984-06-01. It has received 2133 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Spectral element method & Spectral method.

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Questioning Degree of Accuracy Offered by the Spectral Element Method in Computational Electromagnetics

TL;DR: In this article, a comparison between the spectral element method (SEM), the finite difference method (FDM), and the first-order finite element method(FEM) is presented.
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Flame dynamics in lean premixed CO/H2/air combustion in a mesoscale channel

TL;DR: In this article, the dynamics and stabilization of fuel lean premixed CO / H 2 /air atmospheric pressure flames in meso-scale channels were investigated numerically, using detailed gas phase chemistry and transport.
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Efficiency of High Order Spectral Element Methods on Petascale Architectures

TL;DR: High order methods for the solution of PDEs expose a trade-off between computational cost and accuracy on a per degree of freedom basis, and as architectures tend towards wider vector instructions and expect higher arithmetic intensities, the best order for a particular simulation may change.
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Semi-analytical hybrid approach for the simulation of layered waveguide with a partially debonded piezoelectric structure

TL;DR: In this article, a semi-analytical hybrid approach for simulating the dynamic interaction of perfectly bonded or damaged piezoelectric structures with a layered elastic waveguide is presented.
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Bubble-stabilized spectral methods for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations

TL;DR: In this paper, a stabilized spectral Legendre schemefor approximating the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations is presented, which is obtained by adding local bubble functions to the usual global polynomial trial and testvelocities.
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Numerical analysis of spectral methods : theory and applications

TL;DR: Spectral Methods Survey of Approximation Theory Review of Convergence Theory Algebraic Stability Spectral Methods Using Fourier Series Applications of algebraic stability analysis Constant Coefficient Hyperbolic Equations Time Differencing Efficient Implementation of Spectral Method as discussed by the authors.
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Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Backward-Facing Step Flow

TL;DR: In this paper, the velocity distribution and reattachment length of a single backward-facing step mounted in a two-dimensional channel were measured using laser-Doppler measurements.
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Computational and experimental study of a captive annular eddy

TL;DR: In this article, the main flow and the captive eddy between it and the walls are analyzed, and it is concluded that the main role of the eddy is to shape the flow with a rather small energy exchange.
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Finite Element Computational Fluid Mechanics

TL;DR: In this paper, a finite element solution methodology is derived, developed, and applied directly to the differential equation systems governing classes of problems in fluid mechanics, including turbulence closure and the solution of turbulent flows.
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Practical evaluation of three finite difference schemes for the computation of steady-state recirculating flows

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the performance of three steady-state finite difference formulations, namely: (i) the hybrid central/upwind differencing scheme, 2.
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