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The UMIST-N Near-Wall Treatment Applied to Periodic Channel Flow

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CHAPTER 4. NUMERICAL IMPLEMENTATION 49<br />

contains 98 cells. Each cell is 5% larger than its wall-facing neighbour. This<br />

geometrical feature is referred <strong>to</strong> as an expansion fac<strong>to</strong>r of 1.05.<br />

†<br />

d<br />

y<br />

U P<br />

symmetry<br />

nodes<br />

vertexes<br />

wall<br />

Figure 4.1: <strong>The</strong> low-Reynolds-number grid<br />

Within each cell is a ‘node’, where parameters associated with the cell are<br />

tracked. Cell boundaries, called ‘vertexes’, are centred between nodes. Ex-<br />

ceptions exist at y = 0 and y = δ. At y = δ, a half-cell exists, with the<br />

final node placed at the symmetry plane. At y = 0, a node is placed at<br />

the wall with no associated cell. This represents a new modification <strong>to</strong> the<br />

PASSABLE code, allowing easier implementation of wall function boundary<br />

conditions. Previously, the code employed a similar mesh style at y = 0 <strong>to</strong><br />

the mesh at y = δ.<br />

Table 4.1 shows the notation used in this thesis <strong>to</strong> refer <strong>to</strong> discretised values.<br />

Values at vertexes are not s<strong>to</strong>red in the code, but may be calculated via<br />

linear interpolation from adjacent nodal values.

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