3. Fluid Model Code Verification Test Cases

The test cases presented in this chapter for the MFIX fluid solver are summarized in Table 2.1. Test cases were selected based on the criteria for verification test selection outlined in Section 1. All cases are executed in serial mode unless explicitly noted.

Table 3.1 Summary of MFiX-FLD tests by feature.

01

02

03

04

05

06

07

08

09

Frequency†

C

C

C

C

M

M

M

M

M

Reference Dataset‡

A

A

P

A

A

A

P

P

P

Dimension

2D

1D

2D

2D

2D

2D

2D

2D

2D

Momentum

Thermal Energy

Species Mass

Turbulence

FOUP

FOUP-DWF

Superbee

SMART

ULTRA-QUICK

QUICKEST

MUSCL

van Leer

Minmod

Central

Distributed Memory

Shared Memory

† C-Incorporated into the continuous integration server; M-Monthly; Q-Quarterly; X-Manual; D-Disabled

‡ A-Analytical solution; P-Published benchmark data; R-Regression data from previous code versions