Application of lattice Boltzmann method for incompressible viscous flows

Because of the presence of corner eddies that change in number and pattern the lid-driven cavity problem has been found suitable to study various aspects of the performance of solution algorithms for incompressible viscous flows. It retains all the difficult flow physics and is characterized by a large primary eddy at the centre and secondary eddies located near the cavity corners. In this work, lid-driven cavity flow is simulated by lattice Boltzmann method with single-relaxation-time and it is compared with those by lattice Boltzmann method with multi-relaxation-time and finite difference method. The effects of the Reynolds number on the size, centre position and number of vortices are studied in detail together with the flow pattern in the cavity. The close agreement of the results bears testimony to the validity of this relatively new approach. However lattice Boltzmann method with multi-relaxation-time model is seen to remove the difficulties faces by the lattice Boltzmann method with single-relaxation-time at higher Reynolds numbers.     

A variant of the finite superelement method for computing viscous incompressible flows

A variant of the finite superelement method (FSEM) is proposed for computing viscous incompressible convection-dominated flows on a triangular unstructured mesh. To construct the high-order FSEM scheme, vector polynomial test functions (SE basis) are calculated in each grid cell by solving the linearized Navier-Stokes equations with special boundary conditions in the form of basis functions in the trace space.     

Investigation of various solution strategies for the time-spectral method for incompressible,viscous flows

Time-spectral methods show a huge potential for decreasing computation time of time-periodic flows. While time-spectral methods are often used for compressible flows, applications to incompressible flows are rare. This paper presents an extension of the time-spectral method (TSM) to incompressible, viscous fluid flows using a pressure-correction algorithm in a finite volume flow solver.Several algorithmic treatments of the time-spectral operator in a pressure-correction algorithm have been investigated. Initially the single time instances were solved using the Jacobi method as preconditioner. While the existing fluid code is easily adapted, the solver shows a fast degradation in stability. Thus the solution matrix was reordered with respect to time and a block Gauss–Seidel preconditioner was applied. The single time blocks were directly solved using the Cholesky algorithm. The solver is more robust, but the current implementation is inefficient. To alleviate this problem an approach, coupling all time instances and control volumes, was developed. For the complete time and spatial system two different treatments in the preconditioner were researched.To outline the advantages and disadvantages of the proposed solution strategies the laminar flow around the pitching NACA0012 airfoil was investigated. Moreover, unsteady simulations using first and second order time-stepping techniques were used and the time-spectral results were compared to regular time-stepping approaches. It is shown that the time-spectral implementations solving the whole temporal-spatial system are faster than the regular time-stepping schemes. The efficiency of the time-spectral solver decreases with increasing number of harmonics. Furthermore, with a small number of harmonics the lift coefficient over time is not accurately predicted.     

Far field boundary conditions for incompressible flows computation

Many far field boundary conditions are proposed in the literature to solve Navier-Stokes equations. It is necessary to distinguish the streamwise or outlet boundary conditions and the spanwise boundary conditions. In the first case the flow crosses the artificial frontier and it is required to avoid reflections that can change significantly the flow. In the second case the Navier-slip boundary condition is often used but if the frontier is not far enough the boundary is both inlet and outlet. Thus the Navier-slip boundary condition is not well suited as it imposes no flux through the frontier. The aim of this work is to compare some well-known boundary conditions, to quantify to which extend the artificial frontier can be close to the bodies in two- and three-dimensions and to take into account the flow rate through the spanwise directions.     

A boundary integral method for the numerical computation of the forces exerted on a sphere in viscous incompressible flows near a plane wall

Slow uniform flows of a viscous, incompressible fluid past a rigid sphere near a plane wall are considered. The drag and lateral forces exerted on the sphere by the fluid are computed. The numerical results are compared with existing theoretical and experimental data for these and related fluid flows. They are based on a boundary element method for various linearized boundary value problems.

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Zusammenfassung Es werden langsame, gleichförmige Strömungen einer zähen, inkompressiblen Flüssigkeit um eine starre Kugel in der Nähe einer ebenen Wand betrachtet. Die von der Flüssigkeit auf die Kugel ausgeübten Widerstands- und Querkräfte werden berechnet. Die numerischen Ergebnisse werden mit bestehenden, theoretischen und experimentellen Daten für diese und verwandte Strömungen verglichen. Sie basieren auf einer Randelementmethode für verschiedene, linearisierte Randwertprobleme.

     

Efficient computation of non-isothermal highly viscous incompressible flow

We consider the numerical solution of the non–isothermal incompressible Navier–Stokes equations using a discrete projection method. The computation of velocity and temperature subproblems is carried out on different meshes chosen with respect to the physical behavior of these quantities. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

A penalization method to take into account obstacles in incompressible viscous flows

From the Navier-Stokes/Brinkman model, a penalization method has been derived by several authors to compute incompressible Navier-Stokes equations around obstacles. In this paper, convergence theorems and error estimates are derived for two kinds of penalization. The first one corresponds to penalization inducing a Darcy equation in the solid body, the second one corresponds to a penalization and induces a Brinkman equation in the body. Numerical tests are performed to confirm the efficiency and accuracy of the method. Received August 10, 1997     

Modified Navier-Stokes equations for finite-difference computation of viscous flows

The classical Navier-Stokes model is modified so as to increase its accuracy. A system of third-order differential equations is proposed describing viscous flow of liquids and gases. Translated from Obratnye Zadachi Estestvoznaniya, Published by Moscow University, Moscow, 1997, pp. 189–198.     

Influence matrix technique for the numerical spectral simulation of viscous incompressible flows

A spectral algorithm based on the influence matrix technique is desclibed for solving numerically the flow of incompressible viscous fluids. The algorithmic development is for both Newtonian and non-Newtonian flows. To investigate the performance of the method several test problems are solved. Accurate results are obtained with relatively few degrees of freedom.     

Friction boundary conditions on thermal incompressible viscous flows

This work adresses an unsteady heat flow problem involving friction and convective heat transfer behaviors on a part of the boundary. The problem is constituted by a variational motion inequality with energy dependent coefficients, and the energy equation in the framework of L ¹-theory for the dissipative term. Using the duality theory of convex analysis, it also envolves the existence of Lagrange multipliers. Weak solutions of an approximate coupled system are proven by a fixed point argument for multivalued mappings and compactness methods. Then the existence result for the initial coupled system is proven by the passage to the limit. This work was partially supported by FCT research program POCTI (Portugal/FEDER-EU).     

Spectral element solution of steady incompressible viscous free-surface flows

In this paper we present a new approach for the solution of the steady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in a domain bounded in part by a free surface. In the spatial discretization procedure, a Legendre spectral element method is used to generate the discrete equations. For effective solution of the set of algebraic equations, the geometry is decoupled from the fluid velocity and pressure. In addition, two different algorithms are proposed depending on the importance of surface tension effects. Numerical results are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms.     

Generalized stochastic flows and applications to incompressible viscous fluids

We introduce a notion of generalized stochastic flows on manifolds, that extends to the viscous case the one defined by Brenier for perfect fluids. Their kinetic energy extends the classical kinetic energy to Brownian flows, defined as the L²$L^2$ norm of their drift. We prove that there exists a generalized flow which realizes the infimum of the kinetic energy among all generalized flows with prescribed initial and final configuration. We also construct generalized flows with prescribed drift and kinetic energy smaller than the L²$L^2$ norm of the drift.     

On the stationary flows of viscous,incompressible and heat-conducting fluids

We consider a boundary-value problem describing the motion of viscous, incompressible and heat-conducting fluids in a bounded domain in ?³. We admit non-homogeneous boundary conditions, the appearance of exterior forces and heat sources. Our aim is to prove the existence of a solution of the problem in Sobolev spaces.     

Solutions to the mixed problem of viscous incompressible flows in a channel

We study regularity of viscous incompressible fluid flows in a 2D channel with “do nothing” outflow boundary condition on the output for the steady Stokes and Navier–Stokes equations.     

On viscous incompressible flows of nonsymmetric fluids with mixed boundary conditions

In this paper we are concerned with the initial boundary value problem for the micropolar fluid system in nonsmooth domains with mixed boundary conditions. The considered boundary conditions are of two types: Navier’s slip conditions on solid surfaces and Neumann-type boundary conditions on free surfaces. The Dirichlet boundary condition for the microrotation of the fluid is commonly used in practice. However, the well-posedness of problems with different types of boundary conditions for microrotation are completely unexplored. The present paper is devoted to the proof of the existence, regularity and uniqueness of the solution in distribution spaces.     

On the interface boundary conditions between two interacting incompressible viscous fluid flows

We consider two incompressible viscous fluid flows interacting through thin non-Newtonian boundary layers of higher Reynolds? number. We study the asymptotic behaviour of the problem, with respect to the vanishing thickness of the layers, using Γ-convergence methods. We derive general interfacial boundary conditions between the two fluid flows. These boundary conditions are specified for some particular cases including periodic or fractal structures of layers.