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Numerical Simulation of Flow in Lid-driven Cavity using OpenFOAM

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2nd International Conference in Nirma University, NUiCONE2011, Ahmedabad, Institute of Technology, Nirma University, (8–10 dec 2011)

Abstract

In recent years OpenFOAM solvers have attracted great attention of the academia and industrial practitioners. Principal potentialities of this software are full access to the code, easy solver generation, modification and a huge and open users community among others. The isothermal flow patterns in lid-driven cavity for three different geometric configurations of the cavity are obtained using OpenFOAM solvers. These configurations include the square cavity, skewed cavity and trapezoidal cavity. The steady flow patterns obtained by OpenFOAM for different Reynolds numbers (Re) ranging from 100 to 3200 are compared with the benchmark published results of Ghia et al. The isothermal flow in all the three cavities are discussed in detail for varying Reynolds numbers.

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