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Streamline diffusion

Streamline diffusion, given an advection-diffusion equation, refers to all diffusion going on along the advection direction.

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Streamline diffusion, given an advection-diffusion equation, refers to all diffusion going on along the advection direction.¹

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Roos, Hans-Görg; Zarin, Helena (2003-01-01). "The streamline-diffusion method for a convection–diffusion problem with a point source". Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 150 (1): 109–128. Bibcode:2003JCoAM.150..109R. doi:10.1016/S0377-0427(02)00568-X. ISSN 0377-0427.