Cfd simulation of lid driven cavity flow by international. See the attached file for a tutorial on this problem. Ansys fluent software contains the broad physical modeling capabilities needed to model flow, turbulence, heat transfer, and reactions for industrial applicationsranging from air flow over an aircraft wing to combustion in a furnace, from bubble columns to oil platforms, from blood flow to semiconductor manufacturing, and from clean room design to wastewater treatment plants. Numerical implementations for 2d liddriven cavity flow in. Numerical simulation of liddriven cavity flow using the. Fluid flow behaviours inside lid driven cavities have been the subject of extensive computational and experimental studies over the past years. Cfd means computational fluid dynamics,in this we solve the navier stokes equation, which includes mass. Numerical simulation of flow in liddriven cavity using openfoam. This paper presents the simulation of lid driven cavity for deep and shallow flow using the lattice boltzmann method. The vorticity equation will be solved utilizing a forward time central.
Cavity flows contain a full range of flow types from pure rotation near the center of the recirculation region to strong extension near the edges of the lid. The effect the reynolds number on the flow pattern at aspect ratio of 0. Software like matlab can be used to simulate the navierstokes equation. Contours of strem function and velocities have been presented. Divided by four processes this gives 50 cells per process. We are dealing with a square cavity consisting of three rigid walls with noslip conditions and a lid moving with a tangential unit velocity. Liddriven flow in a square cavity is wellknown as a standard test case for the numerical schemes of fluid flows. For the implicit steps, preconditioned matrices are used using lu decomposition. This is a 2d cfd simulation of the well known liddriven cavity flow problem. Here, we have showed how to define a classic cfd problem, the liddriven cavity.
Motivation scientists and engineers have been studying lid driven cavity flows for over twenty years with continued success and improving accuracy 5. Steady incompressible navierstokes equation with continuity. The shear driven cavity or also called lid driven cavity flow is not only technically important to solve fluid flow problem but also the great scientific interest because it displays almost all fluid mechanical phenomena in the simplest of geometrical settings ghia et al 1982. In this video, i will demonstrate the solution procedure for liddriven cavity in ansys fluent. Numerical simulation of flow in liddriven cavity using. Openfoam cavity tutorial high performance computing group. Cavity flow is important both technologically and scientifically because it is able to display most of the intricacies of fluid flow in a geometrically simple environment 20. Lid driven cavityansys fluent tutorial for lid driven. The lid driven cavity flow is the motion of a fluid inside a rectangular cavity created. Tutorial 2 lid driven cavity iitp the purpose of this tutorial is to illustrate the. The fluid contained inside a square cavity is set into motion by the upper wall which is sliding at constant velocity from left to right.
Plot the velocity vectors, velocity and pressure contours of the cavity as it is subjected to a driving force by the lid. Cavity flow is simulated using the pressure correction method on a staggered grid using explicit differencing for the hyperbolic terms cd, maccormack and richtmyer method while both explicit and implicit methods are considered for the diffusive parabolic terms. In this web page you will find my research on steady incompressible 2d flows such as driven cavity flow or flow over a backwards facing step. This project aims at simulating lid driven cavity flow problem using package matlab. On steady laminar flow with closed streamlines at large reynolds numbers.
An auxiliary sweep has enabled us to solve for multiple reynolds numbers while improving the convergence of the simulation. The reference solution has been taken from marchi et. Almalowi a thesis presented to the graduate and research committee of lehigh university in candidacy for the degree of master of science in department of mechanical engineering and mechanics lehigh university 2012. The classic two dimensional driven cavity test case is the square driven cavity. Parallel lid driven cavity flow with fine mesh and mpi. The liddriven cavity flow is the motion of a fluid inside a rectangular cavity created. The fluid motion in the cavity is driven by shear forces due to a moving wall boundary condition at the top of the cavity. Solving the cavity flow problem using the streamfunction. The results from numerical simulations of the 2d liddriven cavity flow are presented and compared with published observations. Numerical investigation of fluid flow over a liddriven. A numerical study of compressible lid driven cavity flow. The bottom of the cavity is free to move at a specified speed and the aspect ratio of the cavity is changed from 1. The results from the graded mesh will be compared with those from the previous meshes.
This paper is concerned with numerical study of the twosided liddriven fluid flow in a staggered cavity. The shear driven cavity or also called liddriven cavity flow is not only technically important to solve fluid flow problem but also the great scientific interest because it displays almost all fluid mechanical phenomena in the simplest of geometrical. Simulating flow in a lid driven cavity using openfoam problem specification file structure of lid driven cavity boundary conditions meshing the geometry checking the geometry and viewing in paraview about the solver solving paraview streamline contour. Analysis of flow behaviour in a two sided lid driven. Shown below are a few results from a simulation of the lid driven cavity for a reynolds number of one hundred using the commercial fluent code. A mesh of cells with grading towards the walls will be created for the lid driven cavity problem and the results from the finer mesh of section 2. The total solution time for such a case is totally dominated by startup overhead, and even the simplest laptop could have solved it in. A cube shaped cavity filled with water, shown below, is subjected to a moving lid at a constant velocity which creates rotating recirculation areas in the fluid contained by the cavity. This 3d liddriven cavity flow is studied by numerical solution of the 3d viscous navierstocks equations using fluent software with secondorder upwind schemes for convective terms.
The 32x32 uniform grid used here is somewhat coarse, as can be seen in the upper left and right corners of the contour plot. The ratio of the height to the width of the cavity are ranged over hl 0. Threedimensional flow in cavity at yaw sciencedirect. In this video, i will demonstrate the solution procedure for lid driven cavity in ansys fluent. Numerical simulations of the 2d lid driven cavity flow.
The lid driven cavity is a wellknown benchmark problem for viscous incompressible fluid flow. Flow in a liddriven cavity introduction the purpose of this tutorial is to illustrate the setup and solution of the twodimensional laminar. This tutorial uses ansys aim to plot the velocity vectors and pressure contours inside the cavity. Sep 12, 2017 a cube shaped cavity filled with water, shown below, is subjected to a moving lid at a constant velocity which creates rotating recirculation areas in the fluid contained by the cavity. This work addresses the classical problem kawaguti, 1961.
Computational fluid dynamics cfd simulations are carried out for laminar incompressible fluid flow in lid driven cavity 10. The simulation is done for both laminar, transient and. The liddriven cavity is a wellknown benchmark problem for viscous incompressible fluid flow. Due to the simplicity of the cavity geometry, applying a numerical method on this flow problem in terms of coding is quite easy and straight forward. This paper aims to provide a cfd simulation study of incompressible viscous laminar flow in cavity flow using matlab package. This is a repo for solving the steady, incompressible ns equations w time derivative preconditioning for the viscous flow in a square, 2d, lid driven cavity. The liddriven cavity flow is the motion of a fluid inside a rectangular cavity created by a constant translational velocity of one side while the other sides remain at rest. In this program simple algorithm on colocated, regular and orthogonal grid is implemented. This is a 2d cfd simulation of the well known lid driven cavity flow problem. This allows to write solutions computed on a given grid and. Aug 10, 2017 a cube shaped cavity is filled with water while subjected to a moving lid at a constant velocity which creates rotating recirculation areas in the fluid. The standard benchmark problem for testing 2d plane nses is the driven cavity flow. Cfd simulation, laminar flow, drag coefficient, lid driven cavity.
Increment in grid size affects the solution of the. May 08, 2018 the flow in the cavity for various reynolds numbers. The flow in the cavity for various reynolds numbers. Create scripts with code, output, and formatted text in a single executable document. Mathworks is the leading developer of mathematical computing software for engineers and scientists. Tech student 2dean academic and head me 3assistant professor 1,2,3nitm gwalior abstractthis project aims at simulating lid driven cavity flow problem using package matlab. Sketch of 2d fully develop cross sectional flow in lid driven square cavity. Cfd simulation of lid driven cavity flow jagram kushwah1 k. Mar 14, 2016 im master student, as a final project my teacher give a steady flow in a lid driven cavity by using naiverstokes equations in stream function vorticity form with deltaxdeltay0. Concluding thoughts on the lid driven cavity problem.
For testing, this problem is mostly used, because of the abundant literatures available to compare the results and the boundary conditions are simple and compatible with most. Parallel liddriven cavity flow with fine mesh and mpi. The lid driven cavity is a classical problem and closely resembles actual engineering problems that exist in research and industry areas. Ghia, ghia and shin, 1982 of laminar flow inside a square cavity of which lid moves at constant velocity. Simulating flow in a lid driven cavity english spoken. Pdf numerical investigation of fluid flow over a liddriven.
Sep 10, 2012 cavity flow is simulated using the pressure correction method on a staggered grid using explicit differencing for the hyperbolic terms cd, maccormack and richtmyer method while both explicit and implicit methods are considered for the diffusive parabolic terms. The mesh size in the previous case was 20 by 20 by 1 i. Finite volume simulation of 2d steady square lid driven cavity flow at high reynolds numbers 925 brazilian journal of chemical engineering vol. We are dealing with a square cavity consisting of three. Square lid driven cavity azore cfd simulation software. This work is focused on numeric investigation of fluid flow over a lid driven cavity. The classic literature reference for this case is typically ghia 1 who provides tabular solution data for comparison. Apr 01, 2016 in this video, i will demonstrate the solution procedure for lid driven cavity in ansys fluent.
This work is focused on numeric investigation of fluid flow over a liddriven cavity. Because it was primarily developing program for learning, there was implemented an output for all variables in the txt format as well as for tecplot format. Computational results are compared to the classical benchmark case where the lid moves in the direction parallel to the cavity side walls case b. The lower left corner has a reference static pressure of 0. Liddriven cavity problem cfdwiki, the free cfd reference. The ansys fluent commercial software was used for the. This paper presents the simulation of liddriven cavity for deep and shallow flow using the lattice boltzmann method. A twodimensional 2d, mathematical model is adopted to investigate the development of circulation patterns for compressible, laminar, and shear driven flow inside a rectangular cavity. Here, we have showed how to define a classic cfd problem, the lid driven cavity. This is a simple workaround to compute gridtogrid errors in fluent we will use the interpolate option in fluent. The vertical sides and the bottom of the cavity are assumed insulated. I discuss about physical, mathematical and numerical aspects of these flows, post many figures and tables, also post fortran codes, solution datas and etc. Lattice boltzmann applied to fluid flow and heated lid driven using 2d square lattice dimension d2q9 by saeed j. Conclusion taylor series helps in converting the partial equations into algebric form.
The video above depicts an animation of the fluid flow in a lid driven cavity that results when the lid or upper side of the square cavity is drawn to the right at a constant velocity, thereby inducing the fluid into a circular motion, i. This is a simple workaround to compute gridtogrid errors in fluent we will use the interpolate. The lid driven cavity flow is most probably one of the most studied fluid problem in computational fluid dynamics field. The lid driven cavity flow has been considered as the benchmark problem for a long time to test or validate the coding or new solution methods in the computational field. This is a repo for solving the steady, incompressible ns equations w time derivative preconditioning for the viscous flow in a square, 2d, liddriven cavity. Lid driven cavity flow file exchange matlab central. A cube shaped cavity is filled with water while subjected to a moving lid at a constant velocity which creates rotating recirculation areas in the fluid. Jul 30, 2016 in this video we will solve the cfd simulation of lid driven cavity using matlab. The results from numerical simulations of the 2d lid driven cavity flow are presented and compared with published observations. This project requires that the vorticity streamline function, u and v velocity profiles, pressure contours for the lid driven rectangular cavity for reynolds number 100 and. This tutorial will describe how to preprocess, run and postprocess a case involving isothermal, incompressible flow in a twodimensional square domain. Plot the velocity vectors, velocity and pressure contours.
Steady incompressible navierstokes equation with continuity equation will be studied at various reynolds number. This video is specially for the people who are looking forward to jump right in the field of cfd. Concluding thoughts on the liddriven cavity problem. Example driven cavity problem setup solver setup material properties. Write a simple code to solve the driven cavity problem using the incompressible navierstokes equations in vorticity form. Pdf cfd simulation of lid driven cavity flow ijsrd.