A computational method for flows of incompressible fluids based on a non conformal transformation of the physical domain (Q1090536): Difference between revisions

The purpose of this paper is to present results from a new formulation related to axisymmetric flows of Newtonian fluids. At the difference of classical methods, the unknowns to be determined are the pressure and a transformation between the physical domain D of the flow and a rectangular domain \(D_ 1\) where the transformed streamlines are parallel straight lines. The present method lies on the concept of stream tube in relation with the incompressibility condition. We show here how it is possible to compute the flow field in domain D by considering successive sub-regions in domain \(D_ 1\).