BLOCK-CORRECTION-BASED MULTIGRID METHOD FOR FLUID FLOW PROBLEMS

Abstract

A coupled-point solution procedure employing a multilevel correction strategy is developed and test results are presented in this article. The method is based on the principle of deriving the coarse-grid discretization equations from the fine-grid discretization equations. The adaptive scheme is applied to the sample problems of laminar flow in lid-driven square and cubic cavities and flow over a backward-facing step. The study demonstrates that the multigrid method is robust and rapidly convergent, resulting in improvement in CPU requirements by a factor of approximately S to 15 compared to the sequential signal-grid SIMPLER procedure. The performance of procedure improves, in comparison to the SIMPLER, as the number of grid points increases.

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Prabhu S. Sathyamurthy

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