%0 Journal Article
%A Uhlmann, Markus
%A Pinelli, Alfredo
%T Two-dimensional thermal convection flow with variable viscosity and embedded boundaries
%D 2003
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/58591
%X A two-dimensional model capable of simulating thermal convection flow in complex geometries has been implemented in a finite-difference setting and using a fictitious domain method of type “direct explicit forcing". The Boussinesq approximation is supposed to hold; the coupling between velocity and temperature fields is explicit; spatially varying viscosity is accounted for. The computation of a model for the thermally-induced flow in a three-chamber fuel tank reveals that the present method does not allow for sufficiently large time steps when the viscosity varies strongly.
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