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FIGURE 3.6
Schematic of the domain of interest.
procedure follows that of the “method of manufactured solution” [22] . Since the species
conservation (Eqn 3.1 ), the energy (Eqn 3.6 ), electric potential (Eqn 3.23 ), and magnetic potential
(Eqn 3.30 ) equations have a similar form, the same method also verifies the solution procedure for
these equations. Then, the solution of the Navier-Stokes equations (Eqns 3.3 and 3.4 ) is validated
against the case of lid-driven cavity flow. The implementation of the level-set method (Eqns 3.37
and 3.38) is validated against the case of a bubble rising in a container partially filled with
aheaviermedium.
3.5.1 Verification - solution procedure of the general transient convection
diffusion equation
Figure 3.6 shows a rectangular domain in which the solution of the general transient convection-
diffusion equation (Eqn 3.42 ) is sought. In the actual solution of Eqn (3.42) , the velocity is
known from the Navier-Stokes equations. Therefore, for verification purpose, the velocity is
assumed to be known. The velocity components are u
¼ y and v ¼
x. The density and diffusion
coefficients are set to r ¼
1and
G ¼
xy, respectively. There is a source term within the rectan-
gular domain of
ae at
x 2
y 2
S
¼
ð
þ
xy
Þ:
(3.57)
With these, it can be easily verified that the exact solution of Eqn (3.42) is given by
f ¼ðx 2
y 2
e at
þ xyÞð
1
Þ:
(3.58)
For initial condition, f ¼
0 in the whole domain. For the boundary conditions, the value of f is given,
except at the right boundary, i.e., x
1.2, where Neumann boundary condition is enforced. Solutions
were made using two different meshes, i.e., 24
¼
20 CVs with
D
t
¼
0.010 s and 48
40 CVs with
D
0.010 s is
sufficient to achieve mesh-independent solution. The predicted solutions agree very well with the exact
solution of Eqn (3.58) .
t
¼
0.005 s. These solutions are shown in Fig. 3.7 . A mesh of 24
20 CVs with
D
t
¼
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