Does anyone know when Fluent does a 1.st order approx. if it is a forward or backward step?

And I guess that when using 2.order it is a central difference?

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Both 1st order and 2nd order schemes are "upwind".

Second order scheme uses central differences.

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ap

Agree on the first statement--"both 1st order and 2 nd order schemes are upwind.". The second statement is confusing. Central difference is only applicable for the convection term when using LES in fluent as I found from the fluent manual. Am I right?

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Jun

When you choose a discretization scheme in the Solve->Controls->Solution panel, that scheme will be used only to compute the convective term of the corresponding equation.

On the second order scheme, FLUENT manual says (§. 24.2.3) that higher-order accuracy is achieved at cell faces through a Taylor series expansion of the cell-centered solution about the cell centroid. The variable and the gradient are cell centered, while the displacement vector is from the upstream cell centroid to the face centroid.

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ap