Application of non-pressure-based coupled procedures for the solution of heat and mass transfer for the incompressible fluid flow phenomenon

• Published in: International journal of heat and mass transfer Vol. 181; p. 121851
• Main Authors: Zolfagharnasab, Mohammad Hossein, Salimi, Milad, Aghanajafi, Cyrus
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.12.2021; Elsevier BV
• Subjects: Algorithms; Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD); Continuity equation; Convergence; Flow control; Flow equations; Fluid dynamics; Fluid flow; Fully implicit coupled procedures; Heat transfer; Incompressible flow; Incompressible fluids; Lid-driven cavity; Mass transfer; Mathematical analysis; Mixed-convection flow; Stability analysis; Velocity coupling; Velocity-pressure coupling problem; Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD); Velocity-pressure coupling problem; Fully implicit coupled procedures; Mixed-convection flow; Lid-driven cavity
• ISSN: 0017-9310; 1879-2189
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2021.121851

•Investigation of two fully implicit, non-pressure-based, continuity-preservative of FICS-2 and SICS.•Three numerical experiments to demonstrate superior stability of FICPs compared to Poisson-based SIMPLEC.•Less dependency regarding the relaxation factor is observed from FICPs compared to Poisson-based SIMPLEC.•Comparably faster convergence-pace is achieved through applying FIPCs at the presence of other scalar equations. The inconvenient treatment of the current velocity-pressure coupling strategies is still a debating issue. Whether the procedures are formed on coupled or segregated solution strategy, the substituted equation for pressure, which is applied instead of the original continuity equation, is known to cause convergence problems for complex fluid flow situations. The present study aims to evaluate two fully implicit, non-pressure-based coupled algorithms known as FICS and SICS (Fully/Simplest Implicit Coupled Procedures) that are able to solve the flow equations without utilizing any additional formulations (Poisson-type or else) for pressure. To do so, a numerical code using C++ was developed, and the noted coupled procedures were implemented alongside the well-known SIMPLEC (Semi-Implicit-Pressure-Linked-Equation-Consistent) algorithm, which was utilized as a benchmark procedure. The evaluations of the noted algorithms seek to compare the stability, solution speed, and compatibility to various physical phenomena such as turbulence and heat transfer that are the main subjects used to compare the fluid mechanic procedures. Obtained results indicate that coupled procedures are irrefutably stable whether only the laminar equations are solved or other highly influential scalar equations have participated. As an instance, it was observed that FICS-2 achieved convergence at least two times faster than SIMPLEC while applying the least amount of relaxation to amend for both non-linearity and the pressure-velocity coupling. As a result, it is concluded that the primitive form of continuity equation is a more efficient alternative than the standard Poisson-based formulation and could be considered for future developments in commercial CFD purposes.