Flow in a Lid Driven Cavity at medium Reynolds number

Flow in a Lid Driven Cavity at medium Reynolds number, starting with a fully developed solution. The flow shows a periodical behaviour, with 3 main secondary vortices moving around the walls.

This simulation is one of the oldest in the 'Virtual Album', and it is a student version!

• Distribution of temperature/concentration via Boussinesq model
  
  

  Visualization via distribution of the temperature in the flow field, starting from the heated walls (shaded, 2.9 MB / 2.2 MB).
  

  
  
  

• Pressure
  
  

  Visualization via pressure plots, shaded (first, 3.5 MB) and via isolines (second, 14.2 MB).
  

  
  
  

• Streamfunction
  
  

  Visualization via streamline plots, shaded (first, 2.9 MB) and via isolines (second, 4.7 MB).
  

  
  
  

• Velocity
  
  

  Visualization via vector plots (vectors, 10 MB).