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Development, Verification and Validation of an In-House CFD Code for Weakly Compressible Flow

Research Authors
Walid J. Al-Nahari, Mohammed F.F. El-Dosoky,
Mohamed M. Abdelghany, and Hamdy M. Shafey
Research Year
2014
Research Journal
Journal of Engineering Sciences, Assiut University
Research Publisher
Faculty of Engineering - Assiut University - Egypt
Research Vol
Vol. 42, No. 5
Research Rank
2
Research_Pages
PP. 1193-1214
Research Website
http://www.aun.edu.eg/journal_files/264_J_1239.pdf
Research Abstract

The work of this paper represents the first stage of a whole modeling and computational solution procedure for an on-going research on agricultural fires at the laboratory of environmental research, Assiut University. The paper presents an accurate and efficient semi-implicit pressure-based algorithm developed for solving numerically the conservation equations governing weakly compressible single-fluid flows. The algorithm uses a finite-volume technique applied to structured non-orthogonal multi-block curvilinear meshes with co-located grid arrangement. An in-house CFD code has been developed to implement the numerical solution of the present algorithm. The code is an integrated one consisting of the main elements, the pre-processor, the solver and the post-processor. This in-house CFD code undergoes a standard verification and validation process using a variety of standard test cases covering broad range of CFD applications. The results of the present code for all test cases are in good agreement with those of the well-established reference CFD codes. This insures the present code verification and validation.