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

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CHAPTER 4. NUMERICAL IMPLEMENTATION 51<br />

Before performing any dimensional analysis on the above equations, one must<br />

actually integrate with respect <strong>to</strong> volume, applying limits of 0 <strong>to</strong> 1 on the in-<br />

tegrations in x and z. It is also notable that the PASSABLE code uses a grid<br />

that is unit length in z but not unit length in x (∆x = 1). This detail must<br />

be remembered when working with the code, particularly when specifying<br />

volume-integrated source terms. Furthermore, in the PASSABLE implemen-<br />

tation, Equations 4.1-4.4 are multiplied through by ρ. This convention is<br />

maintained in the subgrid.<br />

4.3 Discretisation<br />

<strong>The</strong> process of discretisation involves approximating the governing differen-<br />

tial equations by algebraic equations so that they can be solved by a com-<br />

puter.<br />

A fully implicit scheme is used in this work. This means that the previous<br />

time-step values of adjacent nodes are not used. In contrast, a fully explicit<br />

scheme would use the previous time-step values, but not the current time-<br />

step values of adjacent nodes. <strong>The</strong> fully implicit method ensures that the<br />

solution can converge at large time steps.<br />

Central differencing is used in this work <strong>to</strong> approximate derivatives. Other<br />

differencing schemes include PLDS 2 [51] and QUICK 3 [37]. <strong>The</strong>se alternative<br />

schemes involve higher-order approximations. <strong>The</strong> QUICK scheme is also<br />

upstream-biased, in the sense that it makes use of more information on the<br />

2 Power-Law Differencing Scheme<br />

3 Quadratic Upstream Interpolation for Convective Kinetics

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