A High-Order Immersed Boundary Method for Acoustic Wave Scattering and Low-Mach Number Flow-Induced Sound in Complex

Jung Hee Seo1, Rajat Mittal

  • 1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21218.

Journal of Computational Physics
|February 15, 2011
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