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3D implementation

  The tangential velocity and normal stress are prescribed at the boundary, i.e.:

 

From equation (7.7) it is clear that we can calculate and as and are zero, otherwise we have to make an assumption about and . In the remainder of this section we assume that

 

at the boundary.
From and equation (7.22) follows the stress at the boundary in the computational domain.
Boundary condition (7.45) influences the two ''tangential'' velocity cells (see Figure 7.5) and the ''normal'' velocity half-cell (see Figure 7.6).
The and ''tangential'' cells (bottom boundary) are built in a similar way as the inner cells. The only difference is that virtual velocity components and pressures are eliminated by linear extrapolation. For example for the bottom boundary we get:

   

The normal velocity half-cell at the bottom boundary. The discretization of the convective term gives

 

Terms with the factor are the only terms where we need a linearization procedure, since and are given at the boundary.
We use the following discretization of the stress tensor:

 


where is given by . So the right-hand side gets the contribution:

 

The virtual velocities introduced by formula (7.51) are eliminated by linear extrapolation. Just as in 2D is the pressure evaluated in the points (1,0,1), (-1,0,1), (0,1,1) and (0,-1,1) instead of (1,0,0), (-1,0,0), (0,1,0) and (0,-1,0).


Tatiana Tijanova
Wed Mar 26 10:36:42 MET 1997