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This is the universally famous driven cavity case tested with the second order steady solver and for Re=1000.

Animated Result

Fluid velocity fringes

plate

 

 

Keywords

*KEYWORD
*TITLE
*DATABASE_BINARY_D3PLOT
*DEFINE_CURVE_TITLE
*ICFD_BOUNDARY_NONSLIP
*ICFD_BOUNDARY_PRESCRIBED_VEL
*ICFD_CONTROL_GENERAL
*ICFD_CONTROL_OUTPUT
*ICFD_CONTROL_STEADY
*ICFD_MAT
*ICFD_PART
*ICFD_PART_VOL
*ICFD_SECTION
*INCLUDE
*MESH_SURFACE_ELEMENT
*MESH_SURFACE_NODE
*MESH_VOLUME
*PARAMETER
*END

Reduced Input

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$X------------------------------------------------------------------------------
$X
$X 1. Run file as is.
$X    Requires LS-DYNA MPP Dev 114223 (or higher) with double precision 
$X
$X------------------------------------------------------------------------------
$# UNITS: Dimensionless
$X------------------------------------------------------------------------------
$X
*KEYWORD
*TITLE
ICFD Driven Cavity
*INCLUDE
mesh.k
$---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
$                                                                              $
$                             PARAMETERS                                       $
$                                                                              $
$---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
*PARAMETER
I   It_max      2500
R  dt_plot       250
$
$--- Fluid
$
Rrho_fluid         1
R mu_fluid     0.001 
Rvel_fluid         1
$---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
$                                                                              $
$                           ICFD CONTROL CARDS                                 $
$                                                                              $
$---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
*ICFD_CONTROL_GENERAL
         1         0         0
*ICFD_CONTROL_STEADY
   &It_max      1e-8      1e-8                   1         1         1         0
*ICFD_CONTROL_OUTPUT
$#    msgl
         4
$---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
$                                                                              $
$                       ICFD PARTS/ SECTION/ MATERIAL                          $
$                                                                              $
$---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
*ICFD_MAT
$#     mid       flg        ro       vis          
         1         1&rho_fluid &mu_fluid 
*ICFD_PART
$#     pid     secid       mid
         1         1         1
*ICFD_PART
$#     pid     secid       mid
         2         1         1
*ICFD_PART_VOL
$#     pid     secid       mid
        10         1         1
$#   spid1     spid2   
         1         2     
*ICFD_SECTION
$#     sid
         1
$---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
$                                                                              $
$                    ICFD BOUNDARY/INITIAL/LOAD CONDITIONS                     $
$                                                                              $
$---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
*ICFD_BOUNDARY_NONSLIP
$#     pid
         2
*ICFD_BOUNDARY_PRESCRIBED_VEL
$#     pid       dof       vad      lcid        sf       vid     death     birth
         1         1         1         1  1.000000         01.0000E+28     0.000
*DEFINE_CURVE_TITLE
Vel Inlet
$#    lcid      sidr       sfa       sfo      offa      offo    dattyp
         1                    &vel_fluid
$#                a1                  o1
                 0.0                 1.0
             10000.0                 1.0
$---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
$                                                                              $
$                            ICFD MESH KEYWORDS                                $
$                                                                              $
$---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
*MESH_VOLUME
$#   volid
        10
$#    pid1      pid2      
         1         2        
$---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
$                                                                              $
$                             DATABASE (OUTPUT)                                $
$                                                                              $
$---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
*DATABASE_BINARY_D3PLOT
&dt_plot
*END

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Description

This is the universally famous driven cavity case tested with the second order steady solver and for Re=1000.

References :

[1] U. GHIA, K. N. GHIA, and C. T. SHIN, High-re solutions for incompressible using
the navier-stokes equations and a multigrid method*, COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS, 48
(1982), pp. 187–411. 

[2] E. Erturk, Discussions on driven cavity flow, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR
NUMERICAL METHODS IN FLUIDS, 60 (2009), pp. 275–294.