Abstract
This study investigates the use of explicit/implicit, step/linear space extrapolation as numerical outflow boundary conditions for turbulent flow calculations. The emphasis is on the interplay between the use of curvilinear coordinate systems for complex flow calculation and the semi-implicit line iterative procedure. Both a planar single-channeled and an annular multichanneled flow configuration were used as test models. It was found that implicit linear space extrapolation needs more computing time and may not yield a unique solution. On the other hand, explicit zero-order space extrapolation appears to be a robust outflow boundary condition since it has the largest stability limit with respect to underrelaxation factors and initial conditions

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