Refined RBF-FD analysis of non-Newtonian natural convection

02/16/2022
by   Miha Rot, et al.
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In this paper we present a refined RBF-FD solution for a non-Newtonian fluid in a closed differentially heated cavity. The problem at hand is governed by three coupled nonlinear partial differential equations, namely heat transport, momentum transport and mass continuity. The non-Newtonian behaviour is modelled with the Ostwald-de Weele power law and the buoyancy with the Boussinesq approximation. The problem domain is discretised with scattered nodes without any requirement for a topological relation between them. This allows a trivial generalisation of the solution procedure to complex irregular 3D domains, which is also demonstrated by solving the problem in a 2D and 3D geometry mimicking the porous filter. The results in 2D are compared with two reference solutions that use the Finite volume method in a conjunction with two different stabilisation techniques (upwind and QUICK), where we achieved good agreement with the reference data. The refinement is implemented on top of a dedicated meshless node positioning algorithm using piecewise linear node density function that ensures sufficient node density in the centre of the domain while maximising the node density in a boundary layer where the most intense dynamic is expected. The results show that with a refined approach, up to 5 times fewer nodes are needed to obtain the results with the same accuracy compared to the regular discretisation. The paper also discusses the convergence for different scenarios for up to 2 · 10^5 nodes, the behaviour of the flow in the boundary layer, the behaviour of the viscosity and the geometric flexibility of the proposed solution procedure.

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