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 Ra$=10^6,10^7,10^8$ in 2D, and Ra$=10^4,10^5,10^6$ in 3D. The comparison in presented in below table.

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. Domain is discretized with our [[Positioning of computational nodes][fill algorithm]] with Nodal distance $h=0.025$.. 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

[ref a for 2D] @Article{couturier2000performance,

 author    = {Couturier, H. and Sadat, S.},
 title     = {Performance and accuracy of a meshless method for laminar natural convection},
 journal   = {Numerical Heat Transfer: Part B: Fundamentals},
 year      = {2000},
 volume    = {37},
 number    = {4},
 pages     = {455--467},
 doi       = {10.1080/10407790050051146},
 publisher = {Taylor \& Francis},

} [ref b for 2D] @Article{kosec2008solution,

 author    = {Kosec, Gregor and {\v{S}}arler, Bo{\v{z}}idar},
 title     = {Solution of thermo-fluid problems by collocation with local pressure correction},
 journal   = {International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat \& Fluid Flow},
 year      = {2008},
 volume    = {18},
 number    = {7/8},
 pages     = {868--882},
 doi       = {10.1108/09615530810898999},
 publisher = {Emerald Group Publishing Limited},

} [ref a for 3D] [ref b for 3D]