Weekly Report

Yosua Heru Irawan

2019 - 12 - 11

Cavity case in high Reynolds numbers

1 Problem

Direction
of flow

x
z

Figure 1: Lid-driven cavity case

The square container is filled with fluid and the lid of the container moves at a given constant
velocity, thereby setting the fluid in motion. The results of this case will be compared with the
results of published papers. The initial condition at t = 0 is u = 1 and v = w = 0, and the boundary
conditions are:

Table 1: Boundary conditions

Plane Condition
x=0 u=v=w=0
x=1 u=v=w=0
y=0 u=v=w=0
y=1 u = 1 and v = w = 0
z=0 u=v=w=0
z=1 u=v=w=0

1
 dp/dy = 0
u=1
v=0
w=0
North

dp/dx = 0 dp/dx = 0
u=0 u=0
West East
v=0 v=0
w=0 w=0

y
South
x dp/dy = 0
u=0
v=0
w=0

Figure 2: Boundary conditions for x − y plane

2 3D N-S Solver
The solver solves the continuity and Navier-Stokes equations in three dimensions. For this case,
different grid sizes and time steps are used to compare the results with published results. All cases
are run at high Reynolds numbers (Re = 3200).

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3 Results

1.2

0.8

0.6
Present (not converge)
y

Kuo et al.
0.4

0.2

-0.2
-0.4 -0.2 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1
u

Figure 3: Results of case with Re = 3200, grid sizes 100 × 100 × 100 and time step = 0.001 (L2 norm
error = 0.2326)

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 1.2

0.8

0.6 Present
Kuo et al.
y

0.4

0.2

-0.2
-0.4 -0.2 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1
u

Figure 4: Results of case with Re = 3200,80 × 80 × 80 and time step = 0.001 (L2 norm error =
0.1869)

Calculation results with all grid sizes cannot give good results. This solver cannot give good results
because theoretically the phenomenon that occurs in the cube is the turbulent flow phenomenon.

4 Conclusion
This solver cannot solve cavity case with Re = 3200 precisely because the turbulent phenomenon
occurs inside the cube. The larger grid sizes used, it needs to take a small time step to give a good
numerical results.

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5 Future work
The cases with grid sizes 80x80x80 for time steps 0.0001 and 0.00005 are still running.
Learn to solve channel flow and make validation with analytical solutions.

Reference
Y.H. Kuo, K-L. Wong, J.C. Wong, Investigation of Taylor-Gortler-like vortices using the parallel
consistent splitting scheme. Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 1: (799-815), 2009.