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solenoidal

[¦säl·ə¦nȯid·əl]
(mathematics)
A vector field has this property in a region if its divergence vanishes at every point of the region.
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In this experiment, we consider a generalized Oseen problem with Reynolds number 300 (effective viscosity 1/300) where the solenoidal vector field b is a highly heterogeneous and investigate the ability of VMS stabilization in improving the POD-Galerkin approximation.
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