Download or read book Characteristics Finite Element Methods in Computational Fluid Dynamics written by Joe Iannelli and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-09-24 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details a systematic characteristics-based finite element procedure to investigate incompressible, free-surface and compressible flows. Several sections derive the Fluid Dynamics equations from first thermo-mechanics principles and develop this multi-dimensional and infinite-directional upstream procedure by combining a finite element discretization with an implicit non-linearly stable Runge-Kutta time integration for the numerical solution of the Euler and Navier Stokes equations.