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A 3D finite volume method for the prediction of a supercritical fluid buoyant flow in a differentially heated cavity
- Source :
- Computers and Fluids, Computers and Fluids, Elsevier, 2006, 35 (10), pp.1316-1331. ⟨10.1016/j.compfluid.2005.05.004⟩, Computers and Fluids, 2006, 35 (10), pp.1316-1331. ⟨10.1016/j.compfluid.2005.05.004⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2006
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2006.
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Abstract
- International audience; This paper describes a three-dimensional finite volume method for the prediction of supercritical fluid buoyant flows in heated enclosures. The space and the time accuracies of the method are checked on an exact analytical solution, and the solver is validated for several benchmark tests for natural convection inside a differentially heated cavity both in the Boussinesq and in the low Mach number approximations. Then, the influence of the linearization of the van der Waals equation of state on the global convergence is discussed. Comparisons, based on the Rayleigh number, between the supercritical fluid and the perfect gas flows in a side heated cavity, show many similarities in the thermal equilibria and considerable differences in the transient behaviours.
- Subjects :
- Natural convection
Finite volume method
Van der Waals equation
Materials science
General Computer Science
General Engineering
Thermodynamics
Mechanics
Rayleigh number
Perfect gas
01 natural sciences
Supercritical fluid
[SPI.MECA.MEFL]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Mechanics [physics.med-ph]/Fluids mechanics [physics.class-ph]
010305 fluids & plasmas
Physics::Fluid Dynamics
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Mach number
0103 physical sciences
Thermal
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[PHYS.MECA.MEFL]Physics [physics]/Mechanics [physics]/Fluid mechanics [physics.class-ph]
010306 general physics
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Details
- ISSN :
- 00457930
- Volume :
- 35
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Computers & Fluids
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a18e9fb9735e1b6e9d1a99043b0ea793