Abstract
A unified cell-centered unstructured mesh finite volume procedure is presented for fluid flow, heat transfer and solid-body stress analysis. An in-house procedure (A. W. Date, Solution of Transport Equations on Unstructured Meshes with Cell-Centered Colocated Variables. Part I: Discretization, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 48 (6), 1117-1127, 2005) is extended to include the solid-body stress analysis. The transport terms for a cell-face are evaluated in a structured grid-like manner. The Cartesian gradients at the center of each cell-face are evaluated using the coordinate transformation relations. The accuracy of the procedure is demonstrated by solving several benchmark problems involving different boundary conditions, source terms, and types of loading.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 171-184 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | International Journal for Computational Methods in Engineering Science and Mechanics |
Volume | 19 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 4 2018 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- cell-centered
- finite volume procedure
- fluid flow
- heat transfer
- solid-body stress
- unstructured mesh
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computational Mathematics
- Computational Mechanics