Multigrid method for predicting periodically fully developed flow
Abstract
The use of multigrid methods in complex fluid flow problems is still under development. In this paper a full multigrid procedure has been incorporated in a finite volume solution for predicting fully developed fluid flow in a streamwise periodic geometry. Steady computations in two-dimensional body-fitted coordinates have shown considerable savings in computation time using this multigrid method.
- Publication:
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International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids
- Pub Date:
- May 1994
- DOI:
- 10.1002/fld.1650180904
- Bibcode:
- 1994IJNMF..18..843B
- Keywords:
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- Computational Fluid Dynamics;
- Finite Volume Method;
- Multigrid Methods;
- Navier-Stokes Equation;
- Computation;
- Computational Grids;
- Fluid Flow;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer