...Jordi Vila-Pérez; Matteo Giacomini; Antonio Huerta Purpose This study aims to assess the robustness and accuracy of the face-centred finite volume (FCFV) method for the simulation of compressible laminar flows in different regimes, using numerical benchmarks. Design/methodology/approach...

... on finite element, finite volume and lattice Boltzmann methods and which are respectively implemented via commercial Multiphysics software, open-source computational fluid dynamics code and graphical processing unit-based code developed by the authors. The results focus on comparison of the three methods...

... are solved by finite volume method and the SIMPLE algorithm. Findings – From the finding results, it is observed that: for the two studied cases, heat transfer rate along the hot wall is a decreasing function of thermal conductivity ratio irrespective of Richardson numbers contrary to the heat transfer...

... the finite volume method based on the SIMPLE algorithm. The k-ω Shear Stress Transport was used to model turbulence. The thermal and dynamic results were presented in term of average Nusselt number and friction factor, respectively. The effect of the height (Hs=6, 10 and 13) and the position (X=0, 1/3, 1/2...

...Martin Joseph Guillot; Steve C McCool Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of numerical boundary condition implementation on local error and convergence in L2-norm of a finite volume discretization of the transient heat conduction equation subject to several boundary...

...Ahad Zarghami; Stefano Ubertini; Sauro Succi Purpose – The main purpose of this paper is to develop a novel thermal lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) based on finite volume (FV) formulation. Validation of the suggested formulation is performed by simulating plane Poiseuille, backward-facing step...

.../methodology/approach The paper uses finite volume approximation to solve the two‐dimensional volume‐averaged form of governing equations through and around a metal foam‐covered tube bundle. Modified porosity, permeability, and form drag coefficient for a dusty foam layer are obtained through the application...

...A. Kassab; E. Divo; J. Heidmann; E. Steinthorsson; F. Rodriguez We report on the progress in the development and application of a coupled boundary element/finite volume method temperature‐forward/flux‐back algorithm developed to solve conjugate heat transfer arising in 3D film‐cooled turbine blades...

...Jayantha Pasdunkorale A.; Ian W. Turner An existing two‐dimensional finite volume technique is modified by introducing a correction term to increase the accuracy of the method to second order. It is well known that the accuracy of the finite volume method strongly depends on the order...

... with concentric (ε=0.0) case. Grashof number is based on the diameter of the cylinder and ranges from 10 to 10⁶. The control volume based finite volume method is used to discretize the governing equations in cylindrical coordinate. SIMPLE algorithm is used. A collocated variable arrangement...

... at the walls are highly non‐uniform, due to the presence of these secondary motions. It is also shown that an eddy‐diffusivity approach is capable to reproduce well the turbulent heat flux. All simulations were performed by an efficient finite volume algorithm. A description of the numerical algorithm...

...M.F. Carfora A semi‐implicit semi‐Lagrangian mixed finite‐difference finite‐volume model for the shallow water equations on a rotating sphere is considered. The main features of the model are the finite‐volume approach for the continuity equation and the vectorial treatment of the momentum equation...

... equation 13) (see equation 14) (see equation 15) where we assume Finite volume Heat treatment Steel In most structural components in mechanical engineering, the surface is particularly stressed. Therefore, the aim of surface hardening is to increase the hardness of the boundary layers...

...P.J. Coelho; J. Gonçalves The finite volume method for radiative heat transfer calculations has been parallelized using two strategies, the angular domain decomposition and the spatial domain decomposition. In the first case each processor performs the calculations for the whole domain...

...Enrico Bertolazzi A finite volume, semi‐implicit scheme, is proposed and discussed, which solves the two‐dimensional Euler equations for the hypersonic flow of a mixture of chemically reactive specie. The present scheme can be applied on a general, unstructured grid. The first order version...

... in the absence of heat sources. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Finite volume Grids Heat conduction For the numerical simulation of crystal growth equipment it is desirable to take nonlinear heat conduction into account, since the heat conductivity of nearly all materials shows a non trivial...

...L. De Biase; F. Feraudi; V. Pennati A new finite volume (FV) method is proposed for the solution of convection‐diffusion equations defined on 2D convex domains of general shape. The domain is approximated by a polygonal region; a structured non‐uniform mesh is defined; the domain is partitioned...

...L. Kadinski; M. Perić The paper presents a numerical technique for the simulation of the effects of grey‐diffusive surface radiation on fluid flow using a finite volume procedure for two‐dimensional (plane and axi‐symmetric) geometries. The governing equations are solved sequentially, and the non...

...‐averaged transport equations for mass, momentum, turbulence kinetic energy,dissipation rate, enthalpy and species concentrations using a finite‐volume formulation. The physical models include the k—ε turbulence model, the eddy break‐up model, a two‐step reaction model, a droplet vaporization and combustion...

...C.W. Lan; C.C. Ting A pseudo steady‐state model is developed to study heat transfer, fluid flow, and the interface shape in the liquid encapsulated vertical Bridgman crystal growth. The model, which is governed by momentum, heat, and overall mass balances in the system, is solved by a finite‐volume...