This paper on "An Adaptive Finite Element Method for the Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations" was presented at the 5th International Conference on Reliability of Finite Element Methods for Engineering Applications - 10-12 May 1995, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Abstract

This paper concerns the steady solution of the compressible Navier-Stokes equations, using a simple but stable finite element method on unstructured meshes. An adaptive approach is taken so that an initial mesh is refined during solution, using a residual based criterion to indicate where to refine. We show numerical results which demonstrate the application of this strategy.