The lid-driven cavity flow involves a fluid in a square box driven by constant "blow" near the lid. Depending on the physical conditions, a stable eddy can form within the box (as shown by the streamlines). You may notice that when a stable eddy occupies the entire box, its center is actually cooler than the edge, indicating the faster heat transfer rate through forced convection than through conduction. The lid-driven cavity problem is one of the most important benchmarks for computational fluid dynamics.


Coloring:
Grid Velocity vectors Isotherm Heat flux Streamlines
Choose a thermal conductivity (W/(m*°C)):
100 10 1 0.2 0.1
Choose a kinematic viscosity (m2/s):
0.00001 0.0001 0.001 0.01

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