A finite volume procedure for fluid flow, heat transfer and solid-body stress analysis. Issue 3 (4th May 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Jagad, P. I.; Puranik, B. P.; Date, A. W.
• Is Part Of: International journal for computational methods in engineering science and mechanics. Volume 19:Issue 3(2018)
• Page Start: 171
• Page End: 184
• Publication Date: 2018-05-04
• Subjects: cell-centered -- finite volume procedure -- fluid flow -- heat transfer -- solid-body stress -- unstructured mesh; Engineering -- Data processing -- Periodicals; Engineering mathematics -- Periodicals; Computer-aided engineering -- Periodicals; 620.00420285
• DOI: 10.1080/15502287.2018.1434839
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1550-2287

Abstract

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.