This paper presents an adaptive ยฎnite element method to solve forced convective heat transfer. Solutions are obtained in primitive variables using a high-order ยฎnite element approximation on unstructured grids. Two general-purpose error estimators are developed to analyse ยฎnite element solutions and
A finite element method for free and forced convection heat transfer
โ Scribed by Rita J. Schnipke; James G. Rice
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 589 KB
- Volume
- 24
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0029-5981
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โฆ Synopsis
A new finite element method is presented. This new method contains several novel features including a streamline upwind formulation for the advection terms and equal order interpolations for all variables: velocities, pressure, temperature and other fluid properties. This new formulation uses an iterative solution method greatly reducing the computer storage requirements. The validity of the new finite element method was tested on both a natural convection problem, a thermally driven cavity, and a forced convection problem, a heated cylinder in cross-flow. The predicted results compared favourably with a benchmark solution for the cavity and an empirical correlation for the cylinder in cross-flow.
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