Finite Element Method for Thermal Hydraulic Analysis Using Equal-Order Interpolation

Abstract

This paper describes numerical procedures of a new finite eleme~l method for thermal hydraulic analysis using equal-order velocity-pressure interpolorion. The main feature of the proposed method lies in opplying parficular numerical schemes tcl the pressure grodient terms in the momentum conservation equations and the mass balance terms in the pressure equation for the sake of strong coupling of velocily and pressure fields. Some numerical results show the basic potenrial of the proposed method.