Projection method (fluid dynamics)

In computational fluid dynamics, the projection method, also called Chorin's projection method, is an effective means of numerically solving time-dependent incompressible fluid-flow problems. It was originally introduced by Alexandre Chorin in 1967[1][2] as an efficient means of solving the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. The key advantage of the projection method is that the computations of the velocity and the pressure fields are decoupled.

  1. ^ Chorin, A. J. (1967), "The numerical solution of the Navier-Stokes equations for an incompressible fluid" (PDF), Bull. Am. Math. Soc., 73 (6): 928–931, doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1967-11853-6
  2. ^ Chorin, A. J. (1968), "Numerical Solution of the Navier-Stokes Equations", Math. Comp., 22 (104): 745–762, doi:10.1090/s0025-5718-1968-0242392-2