一种结合Roe格式的高精度半拉氏方法

针对守恒形式的欧拉方程组, 构造了一种结合Roe格式的守恒型有限体 积形式的半拉氏方法. 通过发展一种基于Roe特征速度的拉氏质点回溯方法, 由此来计算 半点的流量并作为边界通量的近似, 使得这种半拉氏方法在时空离散上达到二阶精度, 并 且保证了守恒性. 其中回溯点处物理量采用本质无振荡格式(ENO)方法进行插值重 构得到, 不需要增加人工黏性且避免了有限体积多矩半拉氏方法中限制器选择的问题, 又能够达到时空的高阶精度. 方法简便, 易于实现, 兼具拉氏方法和欧拉方法的优点. 一维和二维数值算例表明, 此方法对激波和接触间断都取得了满意的模拟效果, 可用于可压缩复杂流动问题的计算.     

基于制造解的非结构二阶有限体积离散格式的精度测试与验证

随着计算机技术的飞速进步,计算流体力学得到迅猛发展,数值计算虽能够快速得到离散结果,但是数值结果的正确性与精度则需要通过严谨的方法来进行验证和确认.制造解方法和网格收敛性研究作为验证与确认的重要手段已经广泛应用于计算流体力学代码验证、精度分析、边界条件验证等方面.本文在实现标量制造解和分量制造解方法的基础上,通过将制造解方法精度测试结果与经典精确解(二维无黏等熵涡)精度测试结果进行对比,进一步证实了制造解精度测试方法的有效性,并将两种制造解方法应用于非结构网格二阶精度有限体积离散格式的精度测试与验证,对各种常用的梯度重构方法、对流通量格式、扩散通量格式进行了网格收敛性精度测试.结果显示,基于Green-Gauss公式的梯度重构方法在不规则网格上会出现精度降阶的情况,导致流动模拟精度严重下降,而基于最小二乘(least squares)的梯度重构方法对网格是否规则并不敏感.对流通量格式的精度测试显示,所测试的各种对流通量格式均能达到二阶精度,且各方法精度几乎相同;而扩散通量离散中界面梯度求解方法的选择对流动模拟精度有显著影响.     

非结构网格二阶有限体积法中黏性通量离散格式精度分析与改进

非结构网格二阶有限体积离散方法广泛应用于计算流体力学工程实践中,研究非结构网格二阶精度有限体积离散方法的计算精度具有现实意义. 计算精度主要受到网格和计算方法的影响,本文从单元梯度重构方法、黏性通量中的界面梯度计算方法两个方面考察黏性流动模拟精度的影响因素. 首先从理论上分析了黏性通量离散中的“奇偶失联”问题,并通过基于标量扩散方程的制造解方法验证了“奇偶失联”导致的精度下降现象,进一步通过引入差分修正项消除了“奇偶失联”并提高了扩散方程计算精度;其次,在不同类型、不同质量的网格上进行基于扩散方程的制造解精度测试,考察单元梯度重构方法、界面梯度计算方法对扩散方程计算精度的影响,结果显示,单元梯度重构精度和界面梯度计算方法均对扩散方程计算精度起重要作用;最后对三个黏性流动算例(二维层流平板、二维湍流平板和二维翼型近尾迹流动)进行网格收敛性研究,初步验证了本文的结论,得到了计算精度和网格收敛性均较好的黏性通量计算格式.     

Further application of hybrid solution to another form of Boussinesq equations and comparisons

Recently, a new hybrid scheme is introduced for the solution of the Boussinesq equations. In this study, the hybrid scheme is used to solve another form of the Boussinesq equations. The hybrid solution is composed of finite‐volume and finite difference method. The finite‐volume method is applied to conservative part of the governing equations, whereas the higher order Boussinesq terms are discretized using the finite‐difference scheme. Fourth‐order accuracy is provided in both time and space. The solution is then applied to several test cases, which are taken from the previous studies. The results of this study are compared with experimental and theoretical results as well as those of the previous ones. The comparisons indicate that the Boussinesq equations solved here and in the previous study produce quite similar results. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Efficient discretization of pressure‐correction equations on non‐orthogonal grids

An alternative discretization of pressure‐correction equations within pressure‐correction schemes for the solution of the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations is introduced, which improves the convergence and robustness properties of such schemes for non‐orthogonal grids. As against standard approaches, where the non‐orthogonal terms usually are just neglected, the approach allows for a simplification of the pressure‐correction equation to correspond to 5‐point or 7‐point computational molecules in two or three dimensions, respectively, but still incorporates the effects of non‐orthogonality. As a result a wide range (including rather high values) of underrelaxation factors can be used, resulting in an increased overall performance of the underlying pressure‐correction schemes. Within this context, a second issue of the paper is the investigation of the accuracy to which the pressure‐correction equation should be solved in each pressure‐correction iteration. The scheme is investigated for standard test cases and, in order to show its applicability to practical flow problems, for a more complex configuration of a micro heat exchanger. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

New numerical schemes based on a criterion for constructing essentially stable and accurate numerical schemes for convection-dominated equations

In order to obtain stable and accurate numerical solutions for the convection-dominated steady transport equations, we propose a criterion for constructing numerical schemes for the convection term that the roots of the characteristic equation of the resulting difference equation have poles. By imposing this criterion on the difference coefficients of the convection term, we construct two numerical schemes for the convection-dominated equations. One is based on polynomial differencing and the other on locally exact differencing. The former scheme coincides with the QUICK scheme when the mesh Reynolds number (Rm) is $\mathop \[{\textstyle{{\rm 8} \over {\rm 3}}}\] $, which is the critical value for its stability, while it approaches the second-order upwind scheme as Rm goes to infinity. Hence the former scheme interpolates a stable scheme between the QUICK scheme at Rm = $\mathop \[{\textstyle{{\rm 8} \over {\rm 3}}}\] $ and the second-order upwind scheme at Rm = ∞. Numerical solutions with the present new schemes for the one-dimensional, linear, steady convection-diffusion equations showed good results.     

Self-adaptive strategy for one-dimensional finite element method based on EEP method with optimal super-convergence order

Based on the newly-developed element energy projection （EEP） method with optimal super-convergence order for computation of super-convergent results, an improved self-adaptive strategy for one-dimensional finite element method （FEM） is proposed. In the strategy, a posteriori errors are estimated by comparing FEM solutions to EEP super-convergent solutions with optimal order of super-convergence, meshes are refined by using the error-averaging method. Quasi-FEM solutions are used to replace the true FEM solutions in the adaptive process. This strategy has been found to be simple, clear, efficient and reliable. For most problems, only one adaptive step is needed to produce the required FEM solutions which pointwise satisfy the user specified error tolerances in the max-norm. Taking the elliptical ordinary differential equation of the second order as the model problem, this paper describes the fundamental idea, implementation strategy and computational algorithm and representative numerical examples are given to show the effectiveness and reliability of the proposed approach.     

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.