An Artificial Boundary Condition for the Incompressible Viscous Flows in a No-Slip Channel

Abstract

The numerical simulation of the steady incompressible viscous flows in a no-slip channel is considered. A discrete artificial boundary condition on a given segmental artificial boundary is designed by the method of lines. Then the original problem is reduced to a boundary value problem of Navier-Stokes equations on a bounded domain. The numerical examples show that this artificial boundary condition is very effective and more accurate than Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions used in engineering literature.