The pressure-correction technique
it is an iterative approach. start the iterative process by guessing the pressure field p ∗ . in the N-S, using p ∗ for the pressure gradient to obtain velocity field u ∗ , v ∗ , w ∗ . calculate a pressure correction p ′ from the continuity equation, because u ∗ , v ∗ , w ∗ may not satisfy the continuity equation. the corrected pressure is: p = p ∗ + p ′ . also, u = u ∗ + u ′ and so on. repeat with p → p ∗ .
2D steady heat conduction
For 2D cases, the coefficients as follows, aP φP = aW φW + aE φE + aS φS + aN φN + Su (2)
aW aE aS aN aP Γw Aw Γe Ae Γs As Γn An aW + aE + aS + aN - S P δxWP δxPE δySP δyPN To apply TDMA, we can only solve a one dimension(e.g. x ). Therefore, we have to treat terms of the other dimention (e.g. y as source term: −aW φW + aP φP − aE φE = aS φS + aN φN + Su (3)