Numerical Heat Transfer Part B Fundamentals · 2002 · 48 citations · 8 references
Numerical AnalysisEngineeringFluid MechanicsMechanical EngineeringComputer-aided DesignComputational MechanicsMixed ConvectionNumerical SimulationDiffuse Approximation MethodNatural ConvectionCubic CavityIncompressible FlowSemi-implicit MethodMultiphysics ProblemImplicit Projection AlgorithmUnstructured Mesh GenerationHeat TransferMultiphase FlowNumerical Method For Partial Differential EquationFluid-structure InteractionThermal Engineering
A diffuse approximation method (DAM) for three-dimensional, incompressible, viscous fluid flow is presented. The method works directly with primitive variables. The discretized equations are solved using a first-order-in-time, implicit projection algorithm. The proposed method is verified by applying it to the steady three-dimensional differentially heated cubic cavity. The results are compared to those of numerical and experimental investigations in the literature.
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