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4.4 Pressure-velocity coupling<br />

4.4.1 SIMPLE algorithm<br />

– 4.24 –<br />

When solving the momentum equation for velocity, the pressure is unknown and an<br />

estimated value, p � , is firstly used instead. In general, the velocity that is obtained does<br />

not satisfy the continuity equation. A correction to the estimated pressure is added and a<br />

new solution is sought for the new velocity. This procedure is repeated until it gives<br />

pressure and velocity fields satisfying not only the momentum equation but also the<br />

continuity equation. An iterative solution procedure known as SIMPLE (Semi-Implicit<br />

Method for Pressure-Linked Equation) method (Patankar and Spalding, 1972) is widely<br />

used for this velocity-pressure computation. The method requires velocity and discharge<br />

at cell faces, which are not immediately available with the use of non-staggered grids in<br />

the present model. The interpolation technique of Rhie-and-Chow (Rhie and Chow, 1983)<br />

solves this problem. The technique gives interpolated velocity at cell faces from the nodal<br />

values. The standard SIMPLE algorithm is then used to perform the pressure correction.<br />

This section gives some details of the procedure, which follows the derivation given by<br />

Patankar (Patankar and Spalding, 1972; Versteeg and Malalasekera, 1995; Ferziger and<br />

Peric, 1997).<br />

In the iteration ���� ��1, the discretized momentum equation, Eq. 4.52 with � = u, v, w,<br />

can be rewritten as:<br />

a ˜ Pui,P ��<br />

�<br />

��1 ��1<br />

� anbui,nb nb<br />

� ˜ b � 1<br />

� V �p<br />

P<br />

��1 �� ��<br />

��<br />

�� �xi ��<br />

�� P<br />

(4.53)<br />

where the symbols u i and xi are used to denote the Cartesian components of the velocity<br />

and direction, ui � u, v, w and xi � x, y, z , respectively. Note that the pressure gradient<br />

��<br />

in the above expression has intentionally been extracted from the source term, �� b , for a<br />

reason that will be evidenced later ( ˜ b in Eq. 4.53 is thus not exactly the same as that in<br />

Eq. 4.52).<br />

The coefficients a ˜ P , anb , and the source terms, ˜ b , are functions of the known variables<br />

either at the precedent iteration, �� �, or time step, n. For practical solutions of Eq. 4.53,<br />

since there are only 3 equations for 4 unknowns, the pressure p is temporarily fixed at its<br />

initial value. The following system of equations is solved in the first stage:<br />

˜<br />

a P u i,P<br />

�<br />

� �<br />

� a nbui,nb nb<br />

� ˜<br />

b � V P<br />

�<br />

��<br />

��<br />

��<br />

��<br />

�p �<br />

��<br />

�xi ��<br />

P<br />

(4.54a)<br />

�� p� � p � (4.54b)<br />

The estimated pressure, p � , and the velocities obtained from this pressure, u � , v � ,w � , are<br />

of course to be corrected:

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