PERFORMANCE OF A THREE-DIMENSIONAL, PRESSURE-BASED, UNSTRUCTURED FINITE-VOLUME METHOD FOR LOW-REYNOLDS-NUMBER INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW AND WALL HEAT TRANSFER RATE PREDICTION

Unstructured finite-volume methods, which are rapidly increasing in popularity, provide a powerful alternative for the seamless handling of fluid dynamics in complex geometry. A vertex-centered, three-dimensional, unstructured finite-volume formulation is presented and applied to a number of standar...

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Published in:Numerical heat transfer. Part B, Fundamentals Fundamentals, 2003-05, Vol.43 (5), p.403-423
Main Authors: Woodfield, Peter L., Suzuki, Kenjiro, Nakabe, Kazuyoshi
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analytical and numerical techniques
Computational methods in fluid dynamics
Exact sciences and technology
Fluid dynamics
Fundamental areas of phenomenology (including applications)
Heat transfer
Laminar flows
Low-reynolds-number (creeping) flows
Physics
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Summary:Unstructured finite-volume methods, which are rapidly increasing in popularity, provide a powerful alternative for the seamless handling of fluid dynamics in complex geometry. A vertex-centered, three-dimensional, unstructured finite-volume formulation is presented and applied to a number of standard and nonstandard test cases involving incompressible flow and heat transfer at low Reynolds number. The entire numerical formulation, including the diffusion terms, is derived using a fixed, Cartesian coordinate frame of reference and an edge-based data structure, making the present approach straightforward to follow and implement. The method is found to perform very well for all cases considered.
ISSN:1040-7790
1521-0626
DOI:10.1080/713836243