Bifurcation analysis of steady-state flows in the lid-driven cavity

Abstract

© 2016 The Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics and IOP Publishing Ltd Printed in the UK.The paper is devoted to the study of the non-uniqueness issues of a steadystate flow in the square lid-driven cavity. A range 0 Re 20000 of Reynolds numbers is considered in which a numerical bifurcation analysis is carried out. The analysis allows us to localize several branches of the steadystate solution and also to investigate their stability.