NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF LID-DRIVEN FLOW IN A SQUARE CAVITY AT HIGH REYNOLDS NUMBERS

정사각 캐비티내 고레이놀즈수 Lid-Driven 유동의 수치해석

  • 명현국 (국민대학교 기계자동차공학부)
  • Published : 2005.12.01

Abstract

Numerical simulations of two-dimensional steady incompressible lid-driven flow in a square cavity are presented by a new solution code(PowerCFD) which adopts an unstructured cell-centered method. Solutions are obtained for configurations with a Reynolds number as high as 10,000 with both rectangular and hybrid types of unstructured grid mesh in order to validate the code's independency of grid type. Interesting features of the flow are presented in detail and comparisons are made with benchmark solutions found in the literature. It is found that the code is capable of producing accurately the nature of the lid-driven cavity flow at high Reynolds numbers with no grid type dependency.

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