Upwind divergence scheme

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

Reference:


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