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– 4.28 –<br />

The pressure gradients encountered in the source terms are computed according to the<br />

following relations:<br />

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S e,x<br />

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S e<br />

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(4.69)<br />

in which the interpolation of the pressure gradients along the Cartesian coordinates is<br />

done using Eq. 4.21.<br />

4.4.2 Pressure correction procedure<br />

The source term, b p , has pressure correction terms contained in the discharge due to non-<br />

no<br />

orthogonality of the cells, qe . These terms are evaluated explicitly by a double-step<br />

pressure correction procedure as follows:<br />

� Solve Eq. 4.68 for pc no<br />

by neglecting the non-orthogonal terms, qcf � 0 , and correct the<br />

velocities and pressure according to Eqs. 4.55a,b.<br />

� Solve again Eq.4.4 with the non-orthogonal terms now available from the first step<br />

and correct once again the velocities and pressure.<br />

4.4.3 Under-relaxation factor and time step<br />

To avoid instability of the computation, it is a common practice to put an underrelaxation<br />

factor to the pressure correction, 0 � � p �1, in updating the pressure:<br />

p � p � � � p p c (4.70)<br />

As mentioned in Sect. 4.2, the time step plays also as an under-relaxation factor for<br />

steady flow cases. This type of application, that is using the transient equations to solve<br />

steady flows, is generally known as a pseudo-transient computation. In order to achieve<br />

the effects of under-relaxed iterative steady-state computations from a given initial field<br />

by means of a pseudo-transient computation starting from the same initial field, the timestep<br />

size is taken such that (Fletcher, 1997, p. 365):<br />

� p 1<br />

�<br />

1 � E�t with E�t � ˜ a P<br />

�t (4.71)<br />

V P

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