grid convergence

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grid convergence

The horizontal angle at a place between true north and grid north. It is proportional to the longitude difference between the place and the central meridian. See also convergence.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.

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Meshes refining was carried out according to the grid convergence index suggested by Longest and Vinchurkar [14].

Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling of Respiratory Airflow in Tracheobronchial Airways of Infant, Child, and Adult

Meshing and Evaluation of Grid Convergence. The examination of the grid convergence was performed considering the flow rate of 1.0 kg/s at exit, with 5.8 mm gap width and a fine meshing of 8.8 million elements and a range of course meshing whose grids are 4.1 million, 1.8 million, and 0.75 million elements.

Investigation and Assessment of the CFD for Horizontal Flow in the VHTR Core

In order to verify the accuracy of the numerical model, the grid convergence index (GCI) (Celik et al., 2008) was selected to test the uncertainty in the numerical results with different grid sizes.