A high-order characteristic upwind FV method for incompressible flow and heat transfer simulation on unstructured grids (Q1595106)

From the conclusion: We present an unstructured-grid upwind finite volume algorithm for numerical simulation of incompressible flows and convective heat transfer on unstructured grids. The use of the finite volume method combined with unstructured grids makes the scheme very flexible in dealing with complex boundary geometries while maintaining mass, momentum and energy conservation at the cell as well as at the global level. The discretized equations are solved by an explicit multistage Runge-Kutta time stepping scheme which is found to be efficient in terms of CPU and memory overheads. A new upwind characteristics scheme with high-order interpolation is developed as a part of the finite volume method for calculation of convective flux. A general Navier-Stokes code has been developed using the numerical methods presented, and has been validated against a number of well-documented two- and three-dimensional test cases with and without heat transfer.