Flux-corrected transport
{{Short description|Numerical technique for solving hyperbolic equations}}
Flux-corrected transport (FCT) is a conservative shock-capturing scheme for solving Euler equations and other hyperbolic equations which occur in gas dynamics, aerodynamics, and magnetohydrodynamics. It is especially useful for solving problems involving shock or contact discontinuities. An FCT algorithm consists of two stages, a transport stage and a flux-corrected anti-diffusion stage. The numerical errors introduced in the first stage (i.e., the transport stage) are corrected in the anti-diffusion stage.
References
- Jay P. Boris and David L. Book, "[http://coaps.fsu.edu/pub/eric_back/OCP5930/Papers/Boris_Book_Flux_Corrected_Transport.pdf Flux-corrected transport, I: SHASTA, a fluid transport algorithm that works]", J. Comput. Phys. 11, pp. 38 (1973).
External links
[http://rsmas.miami.edu/personal/miskandarani/Courses/MPO662/Zalesak/FCT-JCPv31.pdf Fully multidimensional flux-corrected transport algorithms for fluids] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100708194254/http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/personal/miskandarani/Courses/MPO662/Zalesak/FCT-JCPv31.pdf |date=2010-07-08 }}
See also
- Computational fluid dynamics
- Computational magnetohydrodynamics
- Shock capturing methods
- Volume of fluid method
Category:Computational fluid dynamics
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