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Spurious velocities in the steady flow of an incompressible fluid subjected to external forces

✍ Scribed by J.-F. Gerbeau; C. Le Bris; M. Bercovier


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1997
Tongue
English
Weight
373 KB
Volume
25
Category
Article
ISSN
0271-2091

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✦ Synopsis


We show that a non-physical velocity may appear in the numerical computation of the ¯ow of an incompressible ¯uid subjected to external forces. A distorted mesh and the use of a numerical method which does not rigorously ensure the incompressibility condition turn out to be responsible for this phenomenon. We illustrate it with numerical examples and we propose a projection method which improves the results.