Team for Advanced Flow Simulation and Modeling

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Natural Convection Process

This simulation is carried out to study natural convection in a fluid layer with an internal heat source. The Rayleigh and Prandtl numbers are 100,000 and 6.7, respectively. This simulation was carried out on a CRAY T3D using a structured finite element mesh with 20x20x20 cells. The images show the temperature field together with the mesh on three sides corresponding to the steady-state solution. The flow solver and flow visualization software (based on Visual3 library and BoB) were developed by the T*AFSM.

References:

1. T.J.R. Hughes, T.E. Tezduyar and A.N. Brooks, "Streamline Upwind Formulations for Advection-Diffusion, Navier-Stokes, and First-order Hyperbolic Equations", Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Finite Element Methods in Fluid Flow, University of Tokyo Press, Tokyo (1982).

2. T.E. Tezduyar and D.K. Ganjoo, "Petrov-Galerkin Formulations with Weighting Functions Dependent Upon Spatial and Temporal Discretization: Applications to Transient Convection-Diffusion Problems", Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 59 (1986) 49-71.

3. T.E. Tezduyar and J. Liou, "Adaptive Implicit-Explicit Finite Element Algorithms for Fluid Mechanics Problems", Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 78 (1990) 165-179.

4. T.E. Tezduyar, "Stabilized Finite Element Formulations for Incompressible Flow Computations", Advances in Applied Mechanics, 28 (1991) 1-44.

5. T.E. Tezduyar, S. Mittal and R. Shih, "Time-accurate Incompressible Flow Computations with Quadrilateral Velocity-Pressure Elements", Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 87 (1991) 363-384.

6. T.E. Tezduyar, S. Mittal, S.E. Ray and R. Shih, "Incompressible Flow Computations with Stabilized Bilinear and Linear Equal-order-interpolation Velocity-Pressure Elements", Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 95 (1992) 221-242.

7. T. Tezduyar, S. Aliabadi, M. Behr, A. Johnson, V. Kalro and M. Litke, "High Performance Computing Techniques for Flow Simulations", Chapter 10 in Parallel Solution Methods in Computational Mechanics (ed. M. Papadrakakis), John Wiley & Sons (1997) 363-398.