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This case is an example of buoyancy-driven convection within a simple
rectangular cavity. The two side walls of the cavity are held at
different temperatures (the left side 45.8K hotter than the right), with
the lower and upper walls assumed to be fully insulated. The force due
to gravity is specified as -9.8ms-2, acting in the verical (y) direction.
The gas is initially assumed to be quiescent and the equations are solved using the default
cubic k-epsilon turbulence model in CFD++. Here, the data are compared against
the experiments of Cheesewright et al[1].
[1] Cheeswright, R., King, K.J. and Ziui, S., `Experimental Data for the Validation of Computer Codes for the Prediction of Two-Dimensional Buoyant Cavity Flows' in ASME Winter Annual Meeting, Anaheim, HTD-60, December 1986. |
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