The method of fundamental solutions for the numerical solution of the biharmonic equation
Journal of Computational Physics
An efficient scheme for solving steady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations
Journal of Computational Physics
SIAM Journal on Scientific and Statistical Computing
Journal of Computational Physics
Computers and Biomedical Research
Journal of Computational Physics
Multigrid Solution of Automatically Generated High-Order Discretizations for the Biharmonic Equation
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
A Compact Fourth-Order Finite Difference Scheme for Unsteady Viscous Incompressible Flows
Journal of Scientific Computing
A Central-Difference Scheme for a Pure Stream Function Formulation of Incompressible Viscous Flow
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
Numerical methods for multiple inviscid interfaces in creeping flows
Journal of Computational Physics
Analysis of central and upwind compact schemes
Journal of Computational Physics
High order accurate solution of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations
Journal of Computational Physics
A pure-compact scheme for the streamfunction formulation of Navier-Stokes equations
Journal of Computational Physics
A new paradigm for solving Navier-Stokes equations: streamfunction-velocity formulation
Journal of Computational Physics
Journal of Computational Physics
Computers & Mathematics with Applications
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In this paper, a new methodology has been proposed to solve two-dimensional (2D) Navier-Stokes (N-S) equations representing incompressible viscous fluid flows on irregular geometries. It is based on second order compact finite difference discretization of the fourth order streamfunction equation on computational plane. The important advantage of this formulation is not only to overcome the difficulties existing in the velocity-pressure and streamfunction-vorticity formulations, but also for being applicable to complex geometries beyond rectangular. We first apply the proposed scheme to a problem having analytical solution and then to the well-studied benchmark problem (problem of lid-driven cavity flow) in viscous fluid flow. Finally, we demonstrate the robustness of our proposed scheme on flow in a complex domain (e.g. constricted channel and dilated channel). It is seen to efficiently capture steady state solutions of the N-S equations with Dirichlet as well as Neumann boundary conditions. In addition to this, it captures viscous flows involving free and wall bounded shear layers which invariably contain spatial scale variations. Estimates of the error incurred show that the results are very accurate on a coarser grid. The results obtained using this scheme are in excellent agreement with analytical and numerical results whenever available and they clearly demonstrate the superior scale resolution of the proposed scheme.