Numerical simulation of fluid flow and heat transfer in a passage with moving boundary

Abstract

In this paper, a method is presented in detail that can be used to solve the fluid flow and heat transfer in domains with moving boundaries. The primitive variables formulation is adopted and a non-staggered grid, with Cartesian velocity components used as the primary unkowns in the momentum equations, is utilised. Discretisation is carried out using a control-volume method, the simplified QUICK scheme combined with a deferred correction approach is adopted for the convective fluxes and implicit time stepping is used for temporal differencing. The well-known SIMPLE algorithm is employed for handling the velocity?pressure coupling. The computational method is applied for the prediction of fluid flow and heat transfer in a channel with a boundary moving in a prescribed manner. Results show that both the amplitude and Strouhal number have great influences on the characteristics of fluid flow and heat transfer, and in the range studied, the heat transfer rate increases monotonously with the amplitude, whereas the Strouhal number only has a small effect on heat transfer.