Spectral element simulations of buoyancy-driven flow
Computational Physics
2007-05-23 v1 Fluid Dynamics
Abstract
This paper is divided in two parts. In the first part, a brief review of a spectral element method for the numerical solution of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations is given. The method is then extended to compute buoyant flows described by the Boussinesq approximation. Free convection in closed two-dimensional cavities are computed and the results are in very good agreement with the available reference solutions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0305049,
title = {Spectral element simulations of buoyancy-driven flow},
author = {Thor Gjesdal and Carl Erik Wasberg and Oyvind Andreassen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0305049},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Second National Conference on Computational Mechanics, Trondheim, May 2003. 12 pages, 11 Figures