Abstract
This paper presents a control volume based finite volume method to solve the convection - diffusion equation on a triangular mesh. Variables are stored at the cell center. The upwind differencing scheme is employed to approximate the convective term. The diffusive flux is evaluated by expressing the normal gradient to the face, in terms of surrounding cell values. The scheme is applied to some test cases and the results are compared with either the exact solutions or the solutions obtained using the quadrilateral meshes, and is shown to perform satisfactory.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 1998 Thirteenth Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 13-18 December 1998 (Volume 2) |
| Editors | MC Thompson, K Hourigan, MC Thompson, K Hourigan |
| Publisher | Monash University |
| Pages | 993-996 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| ISBN (Print) | 0732620449 |
| State | Published - 1998 |
| Event | Proceedings of the 1998 Thirteenth Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference - Melbourne, Australia Duration: Dec 13 1998 → Dec 18 1998 |
Conference
| Conference | Proceedings of the 1998 Thirteenth Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference |
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| Country/Territory | Australia |
| City | Melbourne |
| Period | 12/13/98 → 12/18/98 |