underrelax

verb

Etymology

From under- + relax.

  1. derived from relaxāre — “relax, loosen, open
  2. derived from relaxer
  3. inherited from relaxen
  4. prefixed as underrelax — “under + relax

Definitions

  1. To solve using underrelaxation.

    • Because of the inherent non-linearity of the discretization equation it is sometimes necessary to slow down the change in φ from one iteration to the next, i.e. underrelaxing, to avoid divergence to the solution.
    • With this modification, van Doormal and Raithby reported that it was no longer necessary to underrelax the pressure correction.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for underrelax. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA