Abstract: | In this paper, the general boundary element method and the parallel computation are employed to solve laminar viscous flows in a driven square cavity, governed by the exact Navier–Stokes equations. Using the solution at Re=0 as the initial approximation, the convergent numerical results for high Reynolds number at Re=7500 are obtained, for the first time, by the boundary element method. This verifies the validity and great potential of the general boundary element method for highly non‐linear problems, which may greatly enlarge application regions of the boundary element method in science and engineering. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |