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Non-Newtonian Lid-driven Cavity Flow Simulation by Mesh Free Method

Abazar Shamekhi¹, Abbas Aliabadi²

1 Iran Water & Power Development Company, Email: ashamekhi@yahoo.com
2 Ministry of Energy of Islamic Republic of Iran

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences 2009, 11(3), 67-72. https://doi.org/10.3970/icces.2009.011.067

Abstract

Non-Newtonian lid-driven cavity flow is studied in a wide range of Reynolds numbers. The algorithm of mesh free characteristic based split has been extended for solving non-Newtonian flow problems in meshfree context. It is assumed that the non-Newtonian fluid properties obey Carreau-Yasuda rheological model. The results obtained from mesh free characteristic based split algorithm have been compared to the results of other meshfree methods. Results have been obtained for the velocity profiles at Reynolds numbers as high as 1000 for a Carreau-Yasuda fluid.

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