Spectral element benchmark simulations of natural convection in two-dimensional cavities

Date Issued
2004
Keywords
Konveksjon - Strømning
Project number
2004/00590
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12242/1708
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Rapporter
04-00590.pdf
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Abstract
This report presents the results of spectral element simulations of natural convection in two-dimensional cavities. In particular, a detailed comparison is performed with the reference data recently described by Christon et. al. [Int .J. Numer. Meth. Fluids, vol. 40, pp. 953-980, 2002]. The Navier-Stokes equations augmented by the Boussinesq approximation to represent buoyancy effects are solved by a numerical method based on spectral element discretisations and operator splitting. The computed results agree closely with the reference data for both the square and the rectangular cavity configurations.
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