A Collocated Grid Based Finite Volume Approach for the Visualization of Heat Transport in 2D Complex Geometries

The present study aim in developing an algorithm for the analysis of thermal transport in two dimensional complex domains. The integral form of the governing equations are discretized using the finite - volume method. The resulting governing equations are solved using Gauss- Seidel iterative method. In this study initially a code has been developed to read the mesh of different complex geometries from commercial meshing software. Later the data pertaining to mesh has been given as input to the numerical code developed for the visualization of thermal transport in these complex geometries. The collocated grid approach has been used to solve the non-orthogonal domains. The results obtained is validated and compared with the commercial software Ansys fluent. Temperature contour plots are used for the visualization of thermal transport in considered geometries.