TITLE :

2D LAMINAR WALL-DRIVEN CAVITY FLOW

BY : CHAM Development Team - M R Malin
VKI, Belgium - N P Waterson

FOR :

Validation of Convection Discretisation Schemes

PROBLEM CONSIDERED:

• 2d steady, incompressible, laminar, wall-driven recirculating flow inside a square cavity at Re=1000.

• This case is a widely-used test problem for assessing the accuracy and stability of various numerical methods.

• PHOENICS Library Case N102

CALCULATION DETAILS :

• PHOENICS calculations are performed on a 21 by 21 mesh with 5 different discretisation schemes for convection, namely:
  1st order upwind, QUICK, cubic upwind

  Van Leer, Koren

• Then PHOENICS solutions are compared with the benchmark numerical solution reported by Ghia et al ( J. Comp. Physics, Vol.48, p387-411, 1982 ).

• No grid refinement studies have been performed.

Fig2, Profiles for, Re=1000