TY - JOUR
T1 - Simulation of thermal convection based on preconditioning method and BCM
AU - Furusawa, Takashi
AU - Makino, Koutaro
AU - Yamamoto, Satoru
AU - Nakahashi, Kazuhiro
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Preconditioning method developed by the authors was coupled with Building-Cube Method(BCM) which can simulate flows around a complex-shaped body. In this study, this method is applied to the simulation of thermal convective flows around an arbitrary-shaped body. First, forced and natural convections around a cylinder are calculated and the results are compared with the experiments and the previous numerical results to validate the calculated results. Second, natural convection around a fin-shaped body is calculated and the availability of this method to practical problems involving a thermal convective flow is discussed.
AB - Preconditioning method developed by the authors was coupled with Building-Cube Method(BCM) which can simulate flows around a complex-shaped body. In this study, this method is applied to the simulation of thermal convective flows around an arbitrary-shaped body. First, forced and natural convections around a cylinder are calculated and the results are compared with the experiments and the previous numerical results to validate the calculated results. Second, natural convection around a fin-shaped body is calculated and the availability of this method to practical problems involving a thermal convective flow is discussed.
KW - Numerical simulation
KW - Preconditioning method BCM
KW - Thermal convection
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U2 - 10.1299/kikaib.78.745
DO - 10.1299/kikaib.78.745
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84862141988
SN - 0387-5016
VL - 78
SP - 745
EP - 752
JO - Nihon Kikai Gakkai Ronbunshu, B Hen/Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Part B
JF - Nihon Kikai Gakkai Ronbunshu, B Hen/Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Part B
IS - 788
ER -