TY  - EJOU
AU  - Bucchignani, Edoardo 

TI  - An Implicit Unsteady Finite Volume Formulation for Natural Convection in a Square Cavity
T2  - Fluid Dynamics \& Materials Processing

PY  - 2009
VL  - 5
IS  - 1
SN  - 1555-2578

AB  - This article describes an implicit method for the solution of time dependent Navier-Stokes equations written in terms of vorticity and velocity. The field equations are discretized using a finite volume technique over quadrilateral meshes. <br/>
The numerical code has been applied to the classical window cavity test, employing a fine stretched non-uniform grid, in order to provide an accurate steady solution for a high value of the Rayleigh number (10<sup>8</sup>). It has also been performed a simulation for a value of Rayleigh larger than the critical value, in order to show the capabilities of the proposed method to properly simulate the unsteady regime.
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DO  - 10.3970/fdmp.2009.005.037