Upwind divergence scheme

Table of Contents

• Properties
• Normalised Variable Diagram
• Usage
• Further information

Properties

• First order
• Bounded
• Face value set according to the upstream value
• Equivalent to assuming that the cell values are isotropic with a value that represents the average value.

  \[ \phi_f = \phi_c \]

Normalised Variable Diagram

Usage

The scheme is specified using:

divSchemes
{
    default         none;
    div(phi,U)      Gauss upwind;
}

Further information

Source code

• Foam::upwind

Reference:

• Spalding [76]

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