PERTURBATIONAL FINITE VOLUME METHOD FOR THE SOLUTION OF 2-D NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS ON UNSTRUCTURED AND STRUCTURED COLOCATED MESHES

IntroductionThefinitevolume (FV)methodusestheintegralformoftheconservationequationasitsstartingpointandcanutilizeconvenientlydiversifiedgrids(structuredandunstructuredgrids)andissuitableforverycomplexgeometry ,whicharewhyitispopularwithengineeringandhasbeenwidelyusedinagreatvarietyofcommercialsoftwareofcomputationalfluiddynamics.Relativetothefiniteelement (FE)methodandthefinitedifferential (FD)method ,thedisadvantageofFVmethodisthatitisnothigheraccuracy .FVmethodisofsecondlevelapproximatio…

Perturbational finite volume method for the solution of 2-D navier-stokes equations on unstructured and structured colocated meshes

Based on the first-order upwind and second-order central type of finite volume (UFV and CFV) scheme, upwind and central type of perturbation finite volume (UPFV and CPFV) schemes of the Navier-Stokes equations were developed. In PFV method, the mass fluxes of across the cell faces of the control volume (CV) were expanded into power series of the grid spacing and the coefficients of the power series were determined by means of the conservation equation itself. The UPFV and CPFV scheme respectively uses the same nodes and expressions as those of the normal first-order upwind and second-order central scheme, which is apt to programming. The results of numerical experiments about the flow in a lid-driven cavity and the problem of transport of a scalar quantity in a known velocity field show that compared to the first-order UFV and second-order CFV schemes, upwind PFV scheme is higher accuracy and resolution, especially better robustness. The numerical computation to flow in a lid-driven cavity shows that the under-relaxation factor can be arbitrarily selected ranging from (0.3) to (0.8) and convergence perform excellent with Reynolds number variation from 10~2 to 10~4.