Comparison between discretization schemes for numerical analysis of turbulent flow in a square pipe
Abstract
A numerical analysis has been conducted for the turbulent flow through a square pipe in relatively coarse grid systems. Turbulent flow solutions were obtained using the central differencing and the Leonard's QUICK (Quadratic Upstream Interpolation for Convective Kinematics) scheme for discretizing the convective terms. The mean velocity field for each result successfully predicted the typical secondary flow motion. Mean axial flow converges monotonically with the grid refinement for the QUICK case, while it has an extremum value for the central difference case.
- Publication:
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6th National Symposium on Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Pub Date:
- September 1993
- Bibcode:
- 1993cfd..proc..483H
- Keywords:
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- Finite Volume Method;
- Flow Distribution;
- Numerical Flow Visualization;
- Pipe Flow;
- Turbulent Flow;
- Computational Fluid Dynamics;
- Computational Grids;
- Computerized Simulation;
- Flow Velocity;
- Grid Generation (Mathematics);
- Mathematical Models;
- Navier-Stokes Equation;
- Secondary Flow;
- Velocity Distribution;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer