A numerical study of heat island flows: Stationary solutions

DOI10.1002/FLD.1840zbMATH Open1156.76036arXiv0707.1812OpenAlexW2067471870MaRDI QIDQ3605035FDOQ3605035

Authors: Thierry Dubois, R. Touzani 

Publication date: 19 February 2009

Published in: International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present two dimensional numerical simulations of a natural convection problem in an unbounded domain. A thermal stratification is applied in the vertical direction and the flow circulation is induced by a heat island located on the ground. For this problem, thermal perturbations are convected in the horizontal direction far from the heated element so that very elongated computational domains have to be used in order to compute accurate numerical solutions. To avoid this difficulty thermal sponge layers are added at the vertical boundaries. With this approach, stationary solutions at $Rale10^5$ are investigated. Boussinesq equations are discretized with a second-order finite volume scheme on a staggered grid combined with a second-order projection method for the time integration.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.1812

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zbMATH Keywords

Boussinesq equationsstaggered gridsecond-order finite volume schemethermal sponge layer

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free convection (76R10) Stratification effects in viscous fluids (76D50) Finite volume methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M12)

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