MATCHING BOUNDARY-FITTED GRID GENERATION TO PHYSICAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS WITH APPLICATIONS TO NATURAL CONVECTION PROBLEMS

In this article, some techniques are proposed for automatic mesh generation that facilitates the application of the physical boundary conditions. The techniques are applied to some natural convection problems. The Navier-Stokes equations are expressed in terms of stream function and vorticity. Numer...

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Published inNumerical heat transfer. Part A, Applications Vol. 33; no. 6; pp. 621 - 634
Main Authors Li, Y. S., Zhan, J. M., Sun, Ming-Guang
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Taylor & Francis Group 08.05.1998
Taylor & Francis
Subjects
Computational methods in fluid dynamics
Convection and heat transfer
Exact sciences and technology
Fluid dynamics
Fundamental areas of phenomenology (including applications)
Physics
Turbulent flows, convection, and heat transfer
Temperature distribution
Streamlines
Eccentricity
Computational fluid dynamics
Annular space
Digital simulation
Boundary conditions
Circular cylinder
Natural convection
Mesh generation
Heat transfer
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Summary:In this article, some techniques are proposed for automatic mesh generation that facilitates the application of the physical boundary conditions. The techniques are applied to some natural convection problems. The Navier-Stokes equations are expressed in terms of stream function and vorticity. Numerical results for natural convection between eccentric cylinders are in agreement with those of Projahn et al. [ll] and those for the square loop are more reasonable than the results of Ramos and Castrejón (8).
ISSN:1040-7782
1521-0634
DOI:10.1080/10407789808913958