Enhancements of the simple method for predicting incompressible fluid flows
Abstract
Variations of the SIMPLE method of Patankar and Spalding have been widely used over the past decade to obtain numerical solutions to problems involving incompressible flows. The present paper shows several modifications to the method which both simplify its implementation and reduce solution costs. The performances of SIMPLE, SIMPLER, and SIMPLEC (the present method) are compared for two recirculating flow problems. The paper is addressed to readers who already have experience with SIMPLE or its variants.
- Publication:
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Numerical Heat Transfer
- Pub Date:
- June 1984
- Bibcode:
- 1984NumHT...7..147V
- Keywords:
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- Computational Fluid Dynamics;
- Computerized Simulation;
- Flow Velocity;
- Incompressible Flow;
- Pressure Distribution;
- Three Dimensional Flow;
- Two Dimensional Flow;
- Algorithms;
- Computational Grids;
- Convergence;
- Finite Volume Method;
- Prediction Analysis Techniques;
- Recirculative Fluid Flow;
- Velocity Distribution;
- Vorticity;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer