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Technical Report 2006-026

Boundary Conditions for a Divergence Free Velocity-Pressure Formulation of the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations

Jan Nordström, Ken Mattsson, and Charles Swanson

May 2006

Abstract:
New sets of boundary conditions for the velocity-pressure formulation of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations are derived. The boundary conditions have the same form on both inflow and outflow boundaries and lead to a divergence free solution. Moreover, the specific form of the boundary conditions makes it possible derive a symmetric positive definite equation system for the internal pressure. Numerical experiments support the theoretical conclusions.

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