An improved unsteady, unstructured, artificial compressibility, finite volume scheme for viscous incompressible flows: Part II. Application

In Part I of this paper, a preconditioned artificial compressibility scheme was developed for modelling laminar steady‐state and transient, incompressible flows for a wide range of Reynolds and Rayleigh numbers. In this part, several examples of laminar incompressible problems are solved and discussed. The influence of various AC parameters on robustness and convergence rates are assessed for a complex category of problems. It is shown that the scheme developed in Part I is an accurate, robust and easy to use method for solving incompressible laminar flow problems over a wide range of flow regimes.