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ISSN Online: 2379-1748

ISBN Flash Drive: 978-1-56700-517-2

5-6th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference (TFEC)
May, 26–28, 2021 , Virtual

A NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF UNSTEADY FLOW IN A LID DRIVEN SQUARE CAVITY FOR LAMINAR AND TURBULENT CASES

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DOI: 10.1615/TFEC2021.fnd.032184

Abstract

Experimental and numerical studies are performed on steady and unsteady lid driven cavity flow case. In experiments PIV and LDA equipment were employed to measure the global and local velocities respectively inside a cavity of Aspect Ratio 1.0. The velocity vector plots which represents unsteady and steady state circulations are obtained using the PIV. The steady local velocities measured with LDA are then used to calibrate the PIV measurements. Numerical study is performed using a commercial CFD solver. For turbulent flow simulations, Reynolds Average Navier Stoke Equations (RANS) along with standard K-Epsilon closure model were used. PIV calibration attempt showed that the horizontal velocity profile measured using PIV and predicted by CFD solver agreed well however, both overestimated the local velocities measured by the LDA close to the moving lid.