Abstract
There are very few reference solutions in the literature on non-Boussinesq natural con- vection flows. We propose here a test case problem which extends the well-known De Vahl Davis differentially heated square cavity problem to the case of large temperature differences for which the Boussinesq approximation is no longer valid. The paper is split in two parts: in this first part, we pro- pose as yet unpublished reference solutions for cases characterized by a non-dimensional temperature difference of 0.6, Ra = 10 6 (constant property and variable property cases) and Ra = 10 7 (variable property case). These reference solutions were produced after a first international workshop organized by CEA and LIMSI in January 2000, in which the above authors volunteered to produce accurate numerical solutions from which the present reference solutions could be established.
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