We present numerical simulations of viscoplastic flows in expansion-contraction geometry and compare them with physical experiments of [Chevalier et al. Europhys. Lett. 102, 48002 (2013)] and [Luu et al. Phys. Rev. E 91, 013013 (2015)]. Numerical resolution is done with Augmented Lagrangian (following the Glowinski and coworkers' approach) and Finite-Differences (for the space discretization) methods. We show that good agreement is obtained between the numerical results and the physical experiments. In particular, we retrieve the slip line effect of Luu et al. and give numerical evidence of non-monotone shear effect in the boundary layer between the two unyielded regions in the cavity region. We also give some more detailed measures of the size of the plug and dead zones. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.