Implicit solution of time spectral method for periodic unsteady flows

The present paper investigates the implicit solution of time spectral model for periodic unsteady flows. In the time spectral model, the physical time derivative is approximated using spectral method. The robustness issues associated with implicit solution of time spectral model are analyzed and validated by numerical results. It is found that spectral approximation of the time derivative weakens the diagonal dominance property of the Jacobian matrix, resulting in the deterioration of stability and convergence speed. In this paper we propose to solve the coupled governing equations implicitly using multigrid preconditioned generalized minimal residual (GMRES) method, which demonstrates favorable convergence speed. Also it is demonstrated that the current method is insensitive to the variations of frequency and number of harmonics. Comparison of computation results with dual time step unsteady computation validates the high efficiency of the current method. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Compact finite difference-Fourier spectral method for three-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations

A new compact finite difference-Fourier spectral hybrid method for solving the three dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations is developed in the present paper. The fifth-order upwind compact finite difference schemes for the nonlinear convection terms in the physical space, and the sixth-order center compact schemes for the derivatives in spectral space are described, respectively. The fourth-order compact schemes in a single nine-point cell for solving the Helmholtz equations satisfied by the velocities and pressure in spectral space is derived and its preconditioned conjugate gradient iteration method is studied. The treatment of pressure boundary conditions and the three dimensional non-reflecting outflow boundary conditions are presented. Application to the vortex dislocation evolution in a three dimensional wake is also reported. The project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China     

A spectral method for free surface flows of inviscid fluids

In this paper, an efficient numerical method for unsteady free surface motions, with simple geometries, has been devised. Under the potential flow assumption, the governing equation of free surface flows becomes a Laplace equation, which is treated here by means of a series expansions of the velocity potential. The free surface is represented with a height function. The present method is applied to surface gravity waves to test the stability and accuracy of the method. To show the versatility of the method, a model for a dip formation is considered. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

谱元法和高阶时间分裂法求解方腔顶盖驱动流

详细推导了谱元方法的具体计算公式和时间分裂法的具体计算过程 ;对一般的时间分裂法进行了改进 ,即对非线性步分别用 3阶 Adams-Bashforth方法和 4阶显式 Runge-Kutta法 ,粘性步采用 3阶隐式 Adams-Moulton形式 ,提高了时间方向的离散精度 ,同时还改进了压力边界条件 ,采用 3阶的压力边界条件 ;利用改进的时间分裂方法分解不可压缩 Navier-Stokes方程 ,并结合谱元法计算了移动顶盖方腔驱动流 ,提高了方法可以计算的 Re数 ,缩短了达到收敛的时间 ,并将结果与基准解进行比较 ;分析了移动顶盖方腔驱动流中 Re数对流场分布的影响。     

一种求解大型结构动力响应的快速计算方法

针对大型工程结构动力响应求解效率较低的问题,提出了一种基于减基法的快速求解方法。该方法对动力学方程进行时间域积分构建减基空间,利用Galerkin映射向减基空间进行投影得到减缩方程,利用减缩方程快速求得原系统的逼近解,从而大大提高了动力学方程的求解效率。该方法还考虑了Galerkin映射下的奇异性计算,文中算例验证了该...     

Smoothed‐profile method for momentum and heat transfer in particulate flows

The smoothed‐profile method for the motion of solid bodies suspended in a fluid phase is investigated when combined with a high‐order spatial discretization. The performance of the combined method is tested for a wide range of flow and geometry parameters as well as for static and for moving particles. Moreover, a sensitivity analysis is conducted with respect to the smoothed‐profile function. The algorithm is extended to include thermal effects in Boussinesq approximation. Several benchmark problems are considered to demonstrate the potential of the technique. The implementation of the energy equation is verified by dedicated tests. All simulations are compared with either theoretical, numerical, or experimental data. The results demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of the smoothed‐profile method for non‐isothermal problems in combination with a discontinuous finite‐element solver for the fluid flow, which allows for a flexible handling of the grid and the order of spectral approximation in each element. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A second‐order time accurate finite element method for quasi‐incompressible viscous flows

A finite element method for quasi‐incompressible viscous flows is presented. An equation for pressure is derived from a second‐order time accurate Taylor–Galerkin procedure that combines the mass and the momentum conservation laws. At each time step, once the pressure has been determined, the velocity field is computed solving discretized equations obtained from another second‐order time accurate scheme and a least‐squares minimization of spatial momentum residuals. The terms that stabilize the finite element method (controlling wiggles and circumventing the Babuska–Brezzi condition) arise naturally from the process, rather than being introduced a priori in the variational formulation. A comparison between the present second‐order accurate method and our previous first‐order accurate formulation is shown. The method is also demonstrated in the computation of the leaky‐lid driven cavity flow and in the simulation of a crossflow past a circular cylinder. In both cases, good agreement with previously published experimental and computational results has been obtained. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Explicit formulations for evaluation of velocity gradients using boundary‐domain integral equations in 2D and 3D viscous flows

In this paper, explicit boundary‐domain integral equations for evaluating velocity gradients are derived from the basic velocity integral equations. A free term is produced in the new strongly singular integral equation, which is not included in recent formulations using the complex variable differentiation method (CVDM) to compute velocity gradients (Int. J. Numer. Meth. Fluids 2004; 45 :463–484; Int. J. Numer. Meth. Fluids 2005; 47 :19–43). The strongly singular domain integrals involved in the new integral equations are accurately evaluated using the radial integration method (RIM). Considerable computational time for evaluating integrals of velocity gradients can be saved by using present formulation than using CVDM. The formulation derived in this paper together with those presented in reference (Int. J. Numer. Meth. Fluids 2004; 45 :463–484) for 2D and in (Int. J. Numer. Meth. Fluids 2005; 47 :19–43) for 3D problems constitutes a complete boundary‐domain integral equation system for solving full Navier–Stokes equations using primitive variables. Three numerical examples for steady incompressible viscous flow are given to validate the derived formulations. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A consistent incompressible SPH method for internal flows with fixed and moving boundaries

An improved incompressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics (ISPH) method is presented, which employs first‐order consistent discretization schemes both for the first‐order and second‐order spatial derivatives. A recently introduced wall boundary condition is implemented in the context of ISPH method, which does not rely on using dummy particles and, as a result, can be applied more efficiently and with less computational complexity. To assess the accuracy and computational efficiency of this improved ISPH method, a number of two‐dimensional incompressible laminar internal flow benchmark problems are solved and the results are compared with available analytical solutions and numerical data. It is shown that using smaller smoothing lengths, the proposed method can provide desirable accuracies with relatively less computational cost for two‐dimensional problems. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Perturbation initial parameter method for solving the geometrical nonlinear problem of axisymmetrical shells

In the previous paper[7], the author presented a System of First-Order Differential Equations for the problem of axisynrm’trically loaded shells of revolution with small elastic. strains and arbitrarily large axial deflections, and a Method of Variable-Characteristic Nondimensionization with a Scale of Load Parameter. On this basis, by taking the weighted root-mean-square deviation of angular deflection from linearity as perturbation parameter, this paper pressents a perturbation system of nondimensional differential equations for the problem, thus transforms the geometrical nonlinear problem into several linear problems. This paper calculates these linear problems by means of the initial parameter method of numerical integration. The numerical results agree quite well with the experiments[4].     

Pressure‐based unified solver for gas‐liquid two‐phase flows where compressible and incompressible flows coexist

We propose a pressure‐based unified solver for gas‐liquid two‐phase flows where compressible and incompressible flows coexist. Unlike the original thermo–Cubic Interpolated Propagation Combined Unified Procedure (CIP‐CUP) method proposed by Himeno et al (Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Series B, 2003), we split the advection term of the governing equations into a conservation part and into the rest. The splitting of advection term has two advantages. One is the high degree of freedom in choosing discretization schemes such as central‐difference schemes, upwind schemes, and Total Variation Diminishing (TVD) schemes. The other is the ease of implementation on unstructured grids. The advantages enable the analyses of various flows such as turbulent and supersonic ones in actual complicated boundaries. Therefore, the solver is useful for practical analyses. The solver was validated on the following test cases: subsonic single‐phase flows, incompressible single‐phase turbulent flows, and incompressible gas‐liquid two‐phase flows. With unstructured grids, we obtained the equivalent results as the ones with structured grids. After the validations, subsonic jet impinging on a water pool was calculated and compared with experimental results. It was confirmed that the calculated results were consistent with the experimental ones.     

On comparison of exact and series solutions for thin film flow of a third‐grade fluid

The present investigation derives the exact and series solutions for steady thin film flow of a third‐grade fluid. The series solution is constructed by a homotopy analysis method. The obtained solutions are compared and an excellent agreement between these is achieved. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A sharp interface method for high-speed multi-material flows: strong shocks and arbitrary materialpairs

A general framework is developed for solving high-speed and high-intensity multi-material interaction problems on adaptively refined Cartesian meshes. The framework is applicable for interfaces separating materials with very different properties and in the presence of strong shocks. A sharp interface treatment is maintained through a modified Ghost Fluid Method. The embedded boundaries are tracked and represented with level sets. A tree-based Local Mesh Refinement scheme is employed to efficiently resolve the desired physics. Results are shown for situations that cover varied combination of materials (fluids, rigid solids and deformable solids) with careful benchmarking to establish the validity and the versatility of the approach.     

Finite difference method for 2-D and 3-D nonlinear free surface wave problems

A finite difference method is developed for the numerical modelling of the 2-D and 3-D unsteady potential flow generated by transient disturbances on the free surface, on which the nonlinear boundary conditions are fully satisfied. The unknown function is computed with an iteration scheme processing in a transformed time-invariant space. After the velocity is calculated, the location of the free surface is renewed and so is the value of velocity on it. The boundary-value problem of the governing equation is then solved at the next time step. The present method incorporates the FFT. Consequently, a tri-diagonal equation system is obtained which could be readily solved. The feasibility of this method has been demonstrated by 2-D and 3-D examples corresponding to different initial disturbances. This work is supported by the science foundation of Academia Sinica. The paper had been accepted by the XVIth International Congress of IUTAM, Lyngby, Denmark, August, 1984.     

A Newton multigrid method for steady-state shallow water equations with topography and dry areas

A Newton multigrid method is developed for one-dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D) steady-state shallow water equations (SWEs) with topography and dry areas. The nonlinear system arising from the well-balanced finite volume discretization of the steady-state SWEs is solved by the Newton method as the outer iteration and a geometric multigrid method with the block symmetric Gauss-Seidel smoother as the inner iteration. The proposed Newton multigrid method makes use of the local residual to regularize the Jacobian matrix of the Newton iteration, and can handle the steady-state problem with wet/dry transition. Several numerical experiments are conducted to demonstrate the efficiency, robustness, and well-balanced property of the proposed method. The relation between the convergence behavior of the Newton multigrid method and the distribution of the eigenvalues of the iteration matrix is detailedly discussed.     

Development of a three-dimensional solver based on the local domain-free discretization and immersed boundary method and its application for incompressible flow problems

Recently, the author and two other coauthors have proposed a two-dimensional hybrid local domain-free discretization and immersed boundary method (LDFD-IBM), which can be used to solve the flow problem with complex geometries. In this paper, the LDFD-IBM is extended to solve a three-dimensional unsteady incompressible flow with the complex computational domain. The technical issues related to the implementation of the LDFD-IBM in three-dimensional problems are discussed in detail, particularly for the discretization of Navier-Stokes equations, mesh strategies for a three-dimensional flow, and the fast algorithm on the identification of the status of mesh nodes (ie, to identify if the mesh node is located in the solid domain, in the fluid domain, or near the immersed boundary). Numerical tests show that the LDFD-IBM can accurately solve three-dimensional incompressible problems with ease.     

A generalized Rusanov method for the Baer‐Nunziato equations with application to DDT processes in condensed porous explosives

The paper addresses a numerical approach for solving the Baer‐Nunziato equations describing compressible 2‐phase flows. We are developing a finite‐volume method where the numerical flux is approximated with the Godunov scheme based on the Riemann problem solution. The analytical solution to this problem is discussed, and approximate solvers are considered. The obtained theoretical results are applied to develop the discrete model that can be treated as an extension of the Rusanov numerical scheme to the Baer‐Nunziato equations. Numerical results are presented that concern the method verification and also application to the deflagration‐to‐detonation transition (DDT) in porous reactive materials.     

土体颗粒物流动物质点法模拟的弹塑性和非牛顿流体本构模型比较研究

土体颗粒物流动是一种典型的大变形破坏,具有非牛顿流体的流动特征。准确模拟土体颗粒物的流动及冲击过程,对滑坡和泥石流等地质灾害的防治具有重要意义。物质点法是一种无网格粒子类方法,已在各类大变形问题中得到了广泛应用。以往土体颗粒物流动的模拟,通常采用弹塑性本构模型,但缺乏对非牛顿本构模型的模拟分析。本文引入非牛顿本构模型的模拟分析,旨在为土体颗粒物流动模拟提供一种新的方法与思路。非牛顿本构模型的模拟分析是将非牛顿广义Cross模型引入三维物质点法,通过人工阻尼力模拟颗粒间的摩擦力,对土体颗粒物的坍塌、沿斜面滑动以及冲击障碍物等问题进行了动态模拟,研究了其运动全过程,并与弹塑性本构模型的模拟结果进行了对比验证。结果表明,基于非牛顿流体本构模型的物质点法可以较好地模拟土体颗粒物加速、减速到再次稳定的流动全过程及其对障碍物的冲击效应。