Mécanique des fluides numériqueLa mécanique des fluides numérique (MFN), plus souvent désignée par le terme anglais computational fluid dynamics (CFD), consiste à étudier les mouvements d'un fluide, ou leurs effets, par la résolution numérique des équations régissant le fluide. En fonction des approximations choisies, qui sont en général le résultat d'un compromis en termes de besoins de représentation physique par rapport aux ressources de calcul ou de modélisation disponibles, les équations résolues peuvent être les équations d'Euler, les équations de Navier-Stokes, etc.
Continuous functionIn mathematics, a continuous function is a function such that a continuous variation (that is a change without jump) of the argument induces a continuous variation of the value of the function. This means that there are no abrupt changes in value, known as discontinuities. More precisely, a function is continuous if arbitrarily small changes in its value can be assured by restricting to sufficiently small changes of its argument. A discontinuous function is a function that is .
Ε-quadratic formIn mathematics, specifically the theory of quadratic forms, an ε-quadratic form is a generalization of quadratic forms to skew-symmetric settings and to *-rings; ε = ±1, accordingly for symmetric or skew-symmetric. They are also called -quadratic forms, particularly in the context of surgery theory. There is the related notion of ε-symmetric forms, which generalizes symmetric forms, skew-symmetric forms (= symplectic forms), Hermitian forms, and skew-Hermitian forms.
