The characteristic variational multiscale method for time dependent conduction–convection problems ☆ ☆☆

Abstract In this paper, the characteristic variational multiscale (C-VMS) method is proposed to solve the nonstationary conduction–convection problems. The stability analysis is carried out using the energy estimate method. Compared with the standard variational multiscale (VMS) method, the C-VMS method does not need nonlinear iteration. Finally, some numerical examples are given, which show that the C-VMS method is efficient, reliable and can save a lot of CPU time for this problem, besides, it can deal with the high Rayleigh number.

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