Abstract
The computation of flowfields in and around complex shapes such as ducts, engine intakes, complete aircraft or automobiles, etc., involves computational boundaries that do not coincide with coordinate lines in physical space. For finite difference methods, the imposition of boundary conditions for such problems has required a complicated interpolation of the data on local grid lines and, typically, a local loss of accuracy in the computational solution.
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Fletcher, C.A.J. (1988). Generalised Curvilinear Coordinates. In: Fletcher, C.A.J. (eds) Computational Techniques for Fluid Dynamics. Springer Series in Computational Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-97071-9_2
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