Table 1 Solver settings and computing platform specifications
Solver | |
Type | ANSYS Fluent—pressure-based |
Pressure–velocity coupling method | Coupled |
Spatial discretization scheme—gradient | Least squares cell based |
Spatial discretization scheme—pressure | Second order |
Spatial discretization scheme—momentum | Second order upwind |
Flow courant number | 50 |
Explicit relaxation factors | |
Momentum | 0.3 |
Pressure | 0.3 |
Residual value for convergence [35] | |
Continuity | 10−5 |
Velocity | 10−6 |
Computing platform | 1 node of a cluster (2 quad-core Intel Xeon E5620 @ 2.40 GHz, 24 GB RAM for each node, InfiniBand Mellanox for the main interconnections) |
Number of computing cores | 8 |