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Title: A discontinuous Galerkin residual-based variational multiscale method for modeling subgrid-scale behavior of the viscous Burgers equation: A DG-RVMS method for modeling SGS behavior of the viscous Burgers eqn
Award ID(s):
1651577
NSF-PAR ID:
10064907
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons)
Date Published:
Journal Name:
International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids
Volume:
88
Issue:
5
ISSN:
0271-2091
Page Range / eLocation ID:
217 to 238
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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