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Numerical Implementation 118<br />

STREAM code employs the SIMPLE algorithm for velocity-pressure linkage.<br />

<strong>The</strong> grid arrangement adopted in the STREAM code is a collocated grid [64].<br />

This means that both scalar and velocity variables are stored at the centre <strong>of</strong><br />

control volumes. Regarding the discretization <strong>of</strong> convective terms, QUICK,<br />

UPWIND [65] and UMIST [66] schemes are included in the STREAM code.<br />

<strong>The</strong> STREAM code is also designed so that it can employ different near wall<br />

treatments, and again the available choices in the present version are low-Re-<br />

number models, the standard wall function and the analytical wall function.<br />

A wide range <strong>of</strong> RANS turbulence models is available in the STREAM code.<br />

<strong>The</strong> method for grid generation in the STREAM code involves first reading<br />

the scalar control volume boundaries from external files and then placing the<br />

nodes at the centres <strong>of</strong> the control volumes.<br />

5.3 Approximation <strong>of</strong> Convective and Diffusive terms<br />

To study fluid flow problems, the effects <strong>of</strong> <strong>convection</strong> and diffusion must<br />

be accounted for. <strong>The</strong> general form <strong>of</strong> a steady <strong>convection</strong>-diffusion transport<br />

equation for a quantity φ is:<br />

div(ρuφ) = div(Γgradφ)+Sφ<br />

(5.1)<br />

In the case <strong>of</strong> steady one-dimensional <strong>convection</strong> and diffusion in the ab-<br />

sence <strong>of</strong> sources, the above equation reduces to:<br />

whilst the continuity equation is:<br />

<br />

d d<br />

(ρuφ) = Γ<br />

dx dx<br />

dφ<br />

<br />

dx<br />

d(ρu)<br />

dx<br />

(5.2)<br />

= 0 (5.3)<br />

after integration <strong>of</strong> equation 5.2 over the control volume around node P (Figure<br />

5.2):

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