Tuesday, November 6, 2007 - 2:36 PM
267h

Mixed Convection in Square Vented Enclosure Filled with a Porous Material Using the Multigrid Method

Maximilian S. Mesquita, Departamento de Engenharia e Ciências Exatas, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo – UFES/CEUNES, UFES/CEUNES, São Mateus, 29933-415, Brazil and Marcelo J.S. De Lemos, Departamento de Energia - IEME, Instiruto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica - ITA, ITA-IEME, São José dso Campos, 12228-900, Brazil.

The present work investigates the efficiency of the Multigrid method when applied to solve laminar steady mixed convection flow in a vented enclosure with an isothermal vertical wall and filled with a fluid-saturated porous medium is investigated numerically. The numerical method includes finite volume discretization with upwind scheme on structure orthogonal regular meshes. Performance of the correction storage (CS) Multigrid algorithm is compared for different numbers of sweeps in each grid level. Up to four grids, for both Multigrid V- and W- cycles, are presented.