2.4. 2D Lid-driven Cavity Flow

This tutorial illustrates the setup and solution of a two-dimensional incompressible laminar flow in a lid-driven cavity. The lid-driven cavity problem [1] is an important fluid mechanical system serving as a benchmark for testing numerical methods and for studying fundamental aspects of incompressible flows in confined volumes which are driven by the tangential motion of a bounding wall. The lid-driven cavity problem has been used to test the GASFLOW code [2].

[1] U. Ghia, High-Re solutions for incompressible flows using the Navier-Stokes equations and a multigrid method, Journal of Computational Physics , 48, 387-411, (1982).

[2] J. Xiao, W. Breitung, M. Kuznetsov, H. Zhang, J. R. Travis, R. Redlinger, T. Jordan, “GASFLOW-MPI: A new 3-D parallel all-speed CFD code for turbulent dispersion and combustion simulations: Part I: Models, verification and validation”, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, March 2017.