Flow behaviour in rearward-facing cavities (Q1822574)

A group finite element method is described for the prediction of steady, incompressible, laminar flow in rearward-facing cavities with blowing and suction. The cavity is formed by a downstream lip extension to a reaward- facing step. The steady-state solution is obtained as the converged solution of a consistent pseudo-transient approximate factorization of the stream-function vorticity equations. Subsequently the global pressure distribution is obtained from a Poisson equation for the Bernoulli energy variable.