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Predictions of Lid-Driven Flow in a Two-Dimensional Irregular Cavity: a Numerical Study

by Bruno Manoel Pasquim¹, Viviana Cocco Mariani¹

1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, Rua Imaculada Conceicao, 1155, Prado Velho, 80215-901, Curitiba, PR, Brazil {bpasquim@hotmail.com; viviana.mariani@pucpr.br}

Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences 2011, 79(1), 63-82. https://doi.org/10.3970/cmes.2011.079.063

Abstract

The main aim of this study was to evaluate the capacity of a Eulerian-Lagrangian methodology (ELAFINT) to accurately deal with incompressible viscous steady flow in a domain with corners and curved boundaries. Thus, a two-dimensional lid-driven cavity with an irregular bottom was selected. The equations that govern the flow are discretized using the finite-volume method with a Cartesian grid. The evolution of the velocity fields, stream function and vorticity in the irregular cavity when the Reynolds number increases from 500 to 6000 is captured by the method under investigation. The results show that with an increase in the Reynolds number there is the development of new vortices in the flow and also a reduction in the kinetic energy.

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