Natural convection in 3D irregular domain

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The classical De Vahl Davis natural convection test can be extended to 3D. In below figures steady state temperature contour and velocity quiver plots for Ra=10^6 case in 3D are presented. A more quantitative analysis is done by comparing characteristic values, i.e.\ peak positions and values of cross section velocities, with data available in literature~\cite{fusegi1991numerical}. We analyze six different cases, namely \textup{Ra} = 10^6,10^7,10^8 in 2D, and \textup{Ra} = 10^4,10^5,10^6 in 3D. The comparison in presented in~\cref{tab:ff-data}.

All spatial operators are discretized using RBF-FD with r^3 PHS radial basis functions, augmented with monomials up to order 2, with the closest 25 nodes used as a stencil. For the time discretization time step \Delta t=10^{-3} was used for all cases. Nodal distance h=0.01 is used for simulations in 2D and h=0.25 for simulations in 3D. Boundaries with Neumann boundary conditions are additionally treated with ghost nodes Ghost nodes (theory).

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Ra v_{max} x u_{max} y
present ref a ref b present ref a ref b present ref a ref b present ref a ref b
2D 10^6 0.2628 0.2604 0.2627 0.0378 0.0380 0.0390 0.0781 0.0765 0.0782 0.8476 0.8510 0.0390
10^7 0.2633 0.2580 0.2579 0.0226 0.0230 0.0210 0.0588 0.0547 0.0561 0.8705 0.8880 0.0210
10^8 0.2557 0.2587 0.2487 0.0149 0.0110 0.0090 0.0314 0.0379 0.0331 0.9189 0.9430 0.0090
3D 10^4 0.2495 0.2218 0.2252 0.8500 0.8873 0.8833 0.2435 0.1968 0.2013 0.1611 0.1799 0.1833
10^5 0.2545 0.2442 0.2471 0.9402 0.9317 0.9353 0.1564 0.1426 0.1468 0.1447 0.1493 0.1453
10^6 0.2564 0.2556 0.2588 0.9614 0.9653 0.9669 0.0841 0.0816 0.0841 0.1435 0.1403 0.1443