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April 24, 2011, 17:30 |
production term on staggered grid
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behzad
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Hi everybody,
I'm writing a code for simulation of a turbulent flow using finite volume, fully staggered grid and the standard k-epsilon equations. Staggered grids have the advantage of being conservative of kinetic energy , which becomes important for turbulent flows. But I have a problem in calculating the production term in the k and epsilon equations. As you know the production term involves calculating u and v gradients with respect to x and y at the center of the volumes. Now, and can be easily found from central differencing: , but i can't find an easy way for finding and , since we don't have the u velocities at north and south faces and v velocities at east and west faces. Sure I can find these gradients on the corners of the volumes and then average them. But I don't think this is a systematic way and whether this will ruin the whole conservativeness property of the scheme??? I have been thinking about this problem for several weeks now, but I think I lack the knowledge and experience for finding a goodway out of it. Any help is appreciated. |
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