Navier-Stokes calculations with a coupled strongly implicit method. Part 2: Spline solutions

Abstract

A coupled strongly implicit method is combined with a deferred-corrector spline solver for the vorticity-stream function form of the Navier-Stokes equation. Solutions for cavity, channel and cylinder flows are obtained with the fourth-order spline 4 procedure. The strongly coupled spline corrector method converges as rapidly as the finite difference calculations and also allows for arbitrary large time increments for the Reynolds numbers considered. In some cases fourth-order smoothing or filtering is required in order to suppress high frequency oscillations