A projection-based variational multiscale method for large-eddy simulation with application to non-isothermal free-convection problems

Abstract

We consider a projection-based variational multiscale method for large-eddy simulation of the Navier-Stokes/Fourier model of incompressible, non-isothermal flows. For the semidiscrete problem, an a priori error estimate is given for rather general nonlinear, piecewise constant coefficients of the subgrid models for the unresolved scales of velocity, pressure, and temperature. Then we address aspects of the discretization in time. Finally, the design of the subgrid scale models is specified for the case of free convection problems and studied for the standard benchmark problem of free convection in a closed cavity.