Development of a finite volume framework for convective radiative flows on unstructured grids

Abstract

This thesis presents the development of a low Mach number flow solver on unstructured meshes and its application for convective radiative heat transfer Extensive discussions are presented on the circumstances in which variable density flows can no longer be treated using an incompressible assumption Boussinesq approximation This includes problems involving large temperature difference natural convection and those coupled with radiative heat transfer It is very well known that the Boussinesq