Numerical study of transient 2-D compressible flow with heat and mass transfer using the finite volume method

ABSTRACTIn this paper, we used a pressure-based finite volume method to investigate the problem of transient 2-D compressible flow with heat and mass transfer in a rectangular domain. We have used this method to solve the governing equations with given initial and wall slip boundary conditions. We implemented the SIMPLE-TS algorithm in order to compute the numerical solutions for the flow variables, viz., velocity, pressure, temperature, concentration, density. The variation of density of the fluid along the horizontal and vertical line through geometric center of the domain has been studied. The transient solutions of temperature and concentration indicate that, the transient flow though dominates initially, it finally settles down to steady states solutions after elapse of some time. Nusselt number and Sherwood numbers were used to predict the behavior of heat transfer and mass transfer, respectively, at the center line of the rectangular domain.