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Research documented herein allowed the Winslow equations to be applied to boundary nodes which, traditionally, have been held static while interior mesh points are smoothed. In addition, several methods were tested to make the Winslow equations applicable to highly anisotropic viscous regions of a mesh. The most successful methodology that was developed and explored in relation to a viscous region was to use an iteratively adapted computational space for each of the nodes in the viscous region. 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