A 1% Error in Diameter Is a 4% Error in Flow Rate — Half a Cell of Wall and Poiseuille's Constant
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Pipe flow rate rides on the fourth power of the diameter. The same exponent explains a mesh with the wall half a cell off and Poiseuille's 1838 glass tubes.
A Wall the Grid Never Sees — IBM Delta Kernels and Multi-Direct Forcing
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The two places no-slip leaks out of a forcing-term wall
When Pressure Rings in a Checkerboard — SIMPLE and Rhie-Chow Coupling
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Why collocated pressure checkerboards, how Rhie-Chow fixes it, and the SIMPLE loop
The Man Who Erased Pressure — Chorin's Projection Method and Fractional Step
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Predict an incompressible velocity, then project it back to divergence-free