%0 Journal Article %T AN¨¢LISE DA EXECU£¿£¿O DE UM ALGORITMO NUM¨¦RICO CBS PARA SIMULA£¿£¿O DE ESCOAMENTO UTILIZANDO ELEMENTOS FINITOS %A de Carvalho Oliveira %A Marcos Paulo %A Scalon %A Vicente Luiz %A Padilha %A Alcides %J Ingeniare. Revista chilena de ingenier¨ªa %D 2009 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.4067/S0718-33052009000200005 %X this work intends to analyze the application and execution time of a numerical algorithm that simulates incompressible and isothermal flows. it was used the explicit scheme of the "characteristic based split" (cbs) algorithm and the "artificial compressibility" (ac) scheme for coupling pressure-velocity equations. the discretization was done with the finite element method using a bilinear elements grid. the free software gnu-octave was used for implementation and execution of routines. the results were analyzed using the classic lid-driven cavity problem. this work shows results for tests with several reynolds' number. the results for these tests show a good agreement when compared with previous ones obtained from bibliography. the code runtime's analysis shows yet that the matrix's assembly is the part of greater consumption time in the implementation. %K cbs %K artificial compressibility %K finite element method %K lid-driven cavity %K gnu-octave. %U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0718-33052009000200005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en