Why FEM is not so popular for fluid flow involving heat transfer problems?

07 July 2015 0 8K Report

Currently FVM is most popular method to solve fluid flow involving heat transfer problems and related physics. On the other hand, FEM is mostly suitable and popular for structural analysis.

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