Fluid mechanics in the driven cavity

Citation
Pn. Shankar et Md. Deshpande, Fluid mechanics in the driven cavity, ANN R FLUID, 32, 2000, pp. 93-136
Citations number
52
Categorie Soggetti
Mechanical Engineering
Journal title
ANNUAL REVIEW OF FLUID MECHANICS
ISSN journal
00664189 → ACNP
Volume
32
Year of publication
2000
Pages
93 - 136
Database
ISI
SICI code
0066-4189(2000)32:<93:FMITDC>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
This review pertains to the body of work dealing with internal recirculatin g flows generated by the motion of one or more of the containing walls. The se flows are not only technologically important, they are of great scientif ic interest because they display almost all fluid mechanical phenomena in t he simplest of geometrical settings. Thus corner eddies, longitudinal vorti ces, nonuniqueness, transition, and turbulence all occur naturally and can be studied in the same closed geometry. This facilitates the comparison of results from experiment, analysis, and computation over the whole range of Reynolds numbers. Considerable progress has been made in recent years in th e understanding of three-dimensional flows and in the study of turbulence. The use of direct numerical simulation appears very promising.