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 Vol. 43; no. 5; pp. 403 - 423 |
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Main Authors | , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
Philadelphia, PA
Informa UK Ltd
01.05.2003
Taylor & Francis |
Subjects | |
Online Access | Get full text |
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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. |
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ISSN: | 1040-7790 1521-0626 |
DOI: | 10.1080/713836243 |