Oscillatory instability of a three-dimensional lid-driven flow in a cube

A series of time-dependent three-dimensional (3D) computations of a lid-driven flow in a cube with no-slip boundaries is performed to find the critical Reynolds number corresponding to the steady-oscillatory transition. The computations are done in a fully coupled pressure-velocity formulation on 1043, 1523, and 2003 stretched grids. Grid-independence of the results is established. It is found that the oscillatory instability of the flow sets in via a subcritical symmetry-breaking Hopf bifurcation at Recr≈1914 with the nondimensional frequency ω=0.575. Three-dimensional patterns in the steady and oscillatory flow regimes are compared with the previously studied two-dimensional configuration and a three-dimensional model with periodic boundary conditions imposed in the spanwise direction.

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