A NOVEL SEGREGATED ALGORITHM FOR INCOMPRESSIBLE FLUID FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER PROBLEMS—CLEAR (COUPLED AND LINKED EQUATIONS ALGORITHM REVISED) PART II: APPLICATION EXAMPLES

Abstract

In Part I of this article a novel algorithm, CLEAR, was introduced. In this article the relative performance of the CLEAR algorithm and the SIMPLER algorithm is evaluated for six incompressible fluid flow and heat transfer problems with constant property. The six examples cover three two-dimensional orthogonal coordinates. Comprehensive comparisons are made between the two algorithms on the subject of iteration number for obtaining a converged solution, and the consumed CPU time. It is found that CLEAR can appreciably enhance the convergence rate. For the six problems tested, the ratio of iteration numbers of CLEAR over that of SIMPLER ranges from 0.15 to 0.84, and the ratio of the CPU time from 0.19 to 0.92.

The work reported here is supported by the National Key Project of R & D of China (G2000026303), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (50076034, 50236010, 50276046).