Affiliation:
1. Poznan University of Technology
Abstract
Fluid flow in internally finned tubes is a very important problem from a practical point of view. In the literature there are many different numerical methods which were used for analysis this problem. However to the best knowledge of the authors of the present paper there are no so many papers in which meshless methods were applied for this purpose. The main advantages of these methods are: easy implementation, semi-analytical form of the approximate solution and no need for mesh generation. In the paper these meshless methods are compared in application for analysis of incompressible, fully-developed, Newtonian fluid flow in an internally finned tube.
Publisher
Trans Tech Publications, Ltd.
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