The normal contact of rough surfaces with fine discretization

Summary The numerical treatment of a 3-d frictionless normal contact of rough bodies made of a linear–elastic, isotropic material is considered. First, the governing equations and their discretized forms are presented. Due to the order of the problem, the computation time rapidly increases with the grid refinement. Therefore, common computer programs have to be limited to 50×50 contact points. Several numerical techniques (multigrid, iterative solver, distributive relaxation) are used. Cell-centered grid transformation is applied and grid operators have been established for this purpose. In order to handle upto 1000 × 1000 cells the program CON3D has been developed.     

Inviscid flow modelling using asymmetric implicit finite difference schemes

Asymmetric spatial implicit high‐order schemes are introduced and, based on Fourier analysis, the dispersion and damping are calculated depending on the asymmetry parameter. The derived schemes are then applied to a number of inviscid problems. For incompressible convection problems the proposed asymmetric schemes (applied as upwind schemes) lead to stable and accurate results. To extend the applicability of the proposed schemes to compressible problems acoustic upwinding is used. In a two‐dimensional compressible flow example acoustic and conventional upwinding are combined. Evaluation of all presented results leads to the conclusion that, of the studied schemes, the implicit fifth order upwinding scheme with an asymmetry parameter of about 0.5 leads to the optimal results. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A grid‐free upwind relaxation scheme for inviscid compressible flows

A new grid‐free upwind relaxation scheme for simulating inviscid compressible flows is presented in this paper. The non‐linear conservation equations are converted to linear convection equations with non‐linear source terms by using a relaxation system and its interpretation as a discrete Boltzmann equation. A splitting method is used to separate the convection and relaxation parts. Least squares upwinding is used for discretizing the convection equations, thus developing a grid‐free scheme which can operate on any arbitrary distribution of points. The scheme is grid free in the sense that it works on any arbitrary distribution of points and it does not require any topological information like elements, faces, edges, etc. This method is tested on some standard test cases. To explore the power of the grid‐free scheme, solution‐based adaptation of points is done and the results are presented, which demonstrate the efficiency of the new grid‐free scheme. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

各向同性湍流通过正激波的演化特征研究

激波与湍流相互作用(shock-turbulence interaction,STI)是空气动力学研究中的一个基础问题.基于格心有限差分法(cell-centered finite difference method,CCFDM)求解器Helios,采用五阶加权紧致非线性格式(weighted compact nonlinear scheme,WCNS)对各向同性湍流通过正激波的情形进行直接数值模拟(direct numerical simulation,DNS).对湍流相关物理量进行统计,分析结果表明,在湍流中波后的密度、温度和压力较无湍流情形下略小,而速度则略大,均在波后呈现短暂过冲然后缓慢向理论值逼近的变化趋势;波后流向雷诺应力突降随之快速增长又衰减,呈现非单调变化趋势,线性相互作用分析(linear interaction analysis,LIA)将其归结为波后能量从声模式转移为涡模式方式,与流向不同,横向雷诺应力突增后单调衰减,波后雷诺应力各向异性明显且随下游距离逐渐增强;波后湍动能突增后呈现非单调变化趋势;泰勒微尺度和Kolmogorov尺度过激波后均明显减小,说明波后湍流长度尺度变小,从而对波后网格的分辨率提出了更高的要求;密度、温度和压力过激波后脉动均方根均增加,密度和压力脉动强度减小,温度脉动强度增大.      

High-order Lagrangian cell-centered conservative scheme on unstructured meshes

A high-order Lagrangian cell-centered conservative gas dynamics scheme is presented on unstructured meshes. A high-order piecewise pressure of the cell is intro- duced. With the high-order piecewise pressure of the cell, the high-order spatial discretiza- tion fluxes are constructed. The time discretization of the spatial fluxes is performed by means of the Taylor expansions of the spatial discretization fluxes. The vertex velocities are evaluated in a consistent manner due to an original solver located at the nodes by means of momentum conservation. Many numerical tests are presented to demonstrate the robustness and the accuracy of the scheme.     

相容拉氏方法中的ADRS近似Riemann解算器

基于可压缩多介质流动问题，分析AC（acoustic），MFCAV（multi fluid channel on averaged volume）和HLLC等近似Riemann解算器的优缺点，通过加权组合的方式设计一种自适应近似Riemann解算器ADRS（adaptive Riemann solver），详细介绍加权组合的自适应选取原则.将ADRS写成AC解算器的修正形式应用于健壮性好的相容中心型拉氏方法.给出Taylor Green vortex稳态流问题的误差分析等数值算例.     

拉格朗日高阶中心型守恒气体动力学格式

提出了拉格朗日高阶中心型守恒气体动力学格式。用产生于当前时刻子网格密度和当前时刻网格声速的子网格压力构造了子网格力,用加权本质无震荡方法构造的高阶子网格力构造了高阶空间通量,借助时间中点通量的泰勒展开完成了高阶时间通量离散,利用动量守恒条件使得格点速度以与网格面的数值通量相容的方式计算。编制了拉格朗日高阶中心型守恒气体动力学格式,对Saltzman活塞问题进行了数值模拟,数值结果表明,拉格朗日高阶中心型守恒气体动力学格式的有效性和精确性.     

扩散方程保正的有限体积格式

在大变形网格上数值求解多介质扩散方程时, 如何构造具有保正性的扩散格式一直是人们关注的难题. 本文将简要综述与保正性相关的扩散格式的研究历史, 并为解决这一难题提出新的设计途径,构造出新的具有较高精度的单元中心型守恒保正格式, 它们可兼顾网格几何变形和物理量变化. 本文将给出数值实验结果, 验证新格式在变形的网格上保持非负性.     

Developing a unified FVE‐ALE approach to solve unsteady fluid flow with moving boundaries

In this study, an arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian (ALE) approach is incorporated with a mixed finite‐volume–element (FVE) method to establish a novel moving boundary method for simulating unsteady incompressible flow on non‐stationary meshes. The method collects the advantages of both finite‐volume and finite‐element (FE) methods as well as the ALE approach in a unified algorithm. In this regard, the convection terms are treated at the cell faces using a physical‐influence upwinding scheme, while the diffusion terms are treated using bilinear FE shape functions. On the other hand, the performance of ALE approach is improved by using the Laplace method to improve the hybrid grids, involving triangular and quadrilateral elements, either partially or entirely. The use of hybrid FE grids facilitates this achievement. To show the robustness of the unified algorithm, we examine both the first‐ and the second‐order temporal stencils. The accuracy and performance of the extended method are evaluated via simulating the unsteady flow fields around a fixed cylinder, a transversely oscillating cylinder, and in a channel with an indented wall. The numerical results presented demonstrate significant accuracy benefits for the new hybrid method on coarse meshes and where large time steps are taken. Of importance, the current method yields the second‐order temporal accuracy when the second‐order stencil is used to discretize the unsteady terms. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.