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Weak and strong wall boundary procedures and convergence to steady-state of the Navier-Stokes equations
Linköping University.
Uppsala University.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1216-1672
The Swedish Defense Research Agency.
2012 (English)In: Journal of Computational Physics, ISSN 0021-9991, E-ISSN 1090-2716, Vol. 231, no 14, p. 4867-4884Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

We study the influence of different implementations of no-slip solid wall boundary conditions on the convergence to steady-state of the Navier–Stokes equations. The various approaches are investigated using the energy method and an eigenvalue analysis. It is shown that the weak implementation is superior and enhances the convergence to steady-state for coarse meshes. It is also demonstrated that all the stable approaches produce the same convergence rate as the mesh size goes to zero. The numerical results obtained by using a fully nonlinear finite volume solver support the theoretical findings from the linear analysis.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2012. Vol. 231, no 14, p. 4867-4884
National Category
Computational Mathematics
Research subject
Mathematics, Applied Mathematics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-77770DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2012.04.007ISI: 000304257600021OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-77770DiVA, id: diva2:1248196
Available from: 2018-09-14 Created: 2018-09-14 Last updated: 2018-10-03Bibliographically approved
In thesis
1. Stable Numerical Methods with Boundary and Interface Treatment for Applications in Aerodynamics
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Stable Numerical Methods with Boundary and Interface Treatment for Applications in Aerodynamics
2012 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

In numerical simulations, problems stemming from aerodynamics pose many challenges for the method used. Some of these are addressed in this thesis, such as the fluid interacting with objects, the presence of shocks, and various types of boundary conditions.

Scenarios of the kind mentioned above are described mathematically by initial boundary value problems (IBVPs). We discretize the IBVPs using high order accurate finite difference schemes on summation by parts form (SBP), combined with weakly imposed boundary conditions, a technique called simultaneous approximation term (SAT). By using the energy method, stability can be shown.

The weak implementation is compared to the more commonly used strong implementation, and it is shown that the weak technique enhances the rate of convergence to steady state for problems with solid wall boundary conditions. The analysis is carried out for a linear problem and supported numerically by simulations of the fully non-linear Navier–Stokes equations.

Another aspect of the boundary treatment is observed for fluid structure interaction problems. When exposed to eigenfrequencies, the coupled system starts oscillating, a phenomenon called flutter. We show that the strong implementation sometimes cause instabilities that can be mistaken for flutter.

Most numerical schemes dealing with flows including shocks are first order accurate to avoid spurious oscillations in the solution. By modifying the SBP-SAT technique, a conservative and energy stable scheme is derived where the order of accuracy can be lowered locally. The new scheme is coupled to a shock-capturing scheme and it retains the high accuracy in smooth regions.

For problems with complicated geometry, one strategy is to couple the finite difference method to the finite volume method. We analyze the accuracy of the latter on unstructured grids. For grids of bad quality the truncation error can be of zeroth order, indicating that the method is inconsistent, but we show that some of the accuracy is recovered.

We also consider artificial boundary closures on unbounded domains. Non-reflecting boundary conditions for an incompletely parabolic problem are derived, and it is shown that they yield well-posedness. The SBP-SAT methodology is employed, and we prove that the discretized problem is stable.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: Uppsala University, 2012. p. 26
Series
Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis : Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology, ISSN 1651-6214 ; 985
Keywords
summation by parts, simultaneous approximation term, accuracy, stability, finite difference methods
National Category
Computational Mathematics
Research subject
Scientific Computing with specialization in Numerical Analysis
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-77769 (URN)978-91-554-8509-2 (ISBN)
Public defence
2012-12-07, Room 2446, Polacksbacken, Lägerhyddsvägen 2D, 10:15 (English)
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Available from: 2018-09-18 Created: 2018-09-14 Last updated: 2018-10-23Bibliographically approved

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