NUMERICAL SOLUTION OF COUETTE FLOW USING CRANK
NICOLSON TECHNIQUE

MANOJKUMAR MAURYA
M.E. 13906
DEFINATION
• It is a flow between two parallel plates in which the lower plate is at rest
while the upper plate is moving.
• The plates are considered to be infinitely long
• The flow field is driven by the shear stress exerted on fluid due to the
movement of the upper plate.
Analytic method
Crank Nicolson technique
Governing equation
Crank Nicolson technique, the finite difference
representation
• We get different equations as we apply this
equation at different grid points
• The order of the matrix depends upon the
number of grid points taken into consideration
• The matrix thus obtained is tridiagonal matrix
which is converted into bidiagonal form using
Thomas algorithm or Gauss elimination
method
Stability criteria
Representation of tridiagonal matrix
Thomas algorithm
Numerical solution, couette flow using crank nicolson implicit method
Numerical solution, couette flow using crank nicolson implicit method

Numerical solution, couette flow using crank nicolson implicit method