A numerical technique for laminar swirling flow at the interface between porous and homogenous fluid domains

There have been a few recent numerical implementations of the stress‐jump condition at the interface of conjugate flows, which couple the governing equations for flows in the porous and homogenous fluid domains. These previous demonstration cases were for two‐dimensional, planar flows with simple geometries, for example, flow over a porous layer or flow through a porous plug. The present study implements the interfacial stress‐jump condition for a non‐planar flow with three velocity components, which is more realistic in terms of practical flow applications. The steady, laminar, Newtonian flow in a stirred micro‐bioreactor with a porous scaffold inside was investigated. It is shown how to implement the interfacial jump condition on the radial, axial, and swirling velocity components. To avoid a full three‐dimensional simulation, the flow is assumed to be independent of the azimuthal direction, which makes it an axisymmetric flow with a swirling velocity. The present interface treatment is suitable for non‐flat surfaces, which is achieved by applying the finite volume method based on body‐fitted and multi‐block grids. The numerical simulations show that a vortex breakdown bubble, attached to the free surface, occurs above a certain Reynolds number. The presence of the porous scaffold delays the onset of vortex breakdown and confines it to a region above the scaffold. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

GLOBAL SUPERCONVERGENCES OF THE DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHODS WITH NONMATCHING GRIDS

1. IlltroductionA nonconforming domain decomposition method with Lagrangian multipliers was proposedin [13]. The basic idea of this method is to deal with the nonconforming of nonmatching gridsby illtroducing the Lagrangian multipliers on interfaces of subdomains and its advalltages arethat it allows not only the incompatibility of the internal variables on the interface betweensubdomains, but also the discolltinuity of the boundary variables on the common venices ofsubdomains. Thus one can c…     

Metal grid technologies for flexible transparent conductors in large-area optoelectronics

Mechanically flexible optoelectronic devices such as flexible displays, touch-screens, wearable electronics and solar cells are attracting significant commercial interest. In these devices, a transparent conductor is an essential element that delivers or collects the electrical current to the active material while it allows light to enter or exit from the device. The transparent conductor is composed of a transparent conductive film and a metallic grid providing electrical conduction over the large area. In this article, we review the established processes used by the industry as well as emerging solution-based methods for processing metal grids. Furthermore, we review the issues and potentials of these emerging processes facing for large-area deployment. In the final section, we evaluate three applications of flexible transparent conductors in: perovskite-based solar cells, organic light emitting diodes and electrochromic windows.     

FV/MC混合算法求解轴对称钝体后湍流流场

介绍一种有限容积／Monte Carlo结合求解湍流流场的相容的混合算法．有限容积法求解Reynolds平均的动量方程和能量方程，Monte Carlo方法求解模化的脉动速度—频率—标量联合的PDF方程．将该算法发展到无结构网格，探讨了在无结构网格中实现两种方法的耦合，包括颗粒定位，颗粒场和平均场之间数据交换等问题．并以二维轴对称钝体后湍流流场作为算例，比较了计算结果与实验结果．     

ELASTIC WAVES IN 3-D DISCRETE GRIDS

Wave motion in finite element models presents some characteristics different from thoseof wave motion in continuum,which leads to the errors and other special phenomena in finite elementsimulation of wave motion.The wave propagation in a 3-D finite element model is studied by utilizingthe formal solution in the paper,and the corresponding dispersion relations are derived.Then the mainproperties of wave motion in 3-D grids such as dispersion,cut-off frequency and polarization drift arediscussed.Characteristics different from those of wave motion in 2—D grids are revealed.     

三维离散网格中的弹性波动

本文采用形式解法研究三维有限元离散模型中波动的传播规律。文中由波动方程得到它的特征方程，进而给出了三维离散网格中波的频散关系，分析了三维网格中平面波、非匀匀波、寄生振荡及其它可能存在的运动形式的基本特点；详细讨论了平面波的频散、截止频率及偏振漂移等重要的不同于连续介质中的波动传播性质的特点，提示了其中不同于低维网格中 波动的现象。     

轴对称高速碰撞问题的拉格朗日无结构网格有限体积法的并行计算

给出计算轴对称高速碰撞问题的拉格朗日无结构三角形网格有限体积法的并行格式，并给出以小巨型机ＡｌｉａｎｔＦＸ／４０为目标计算机的算例数值模拟结果和效率分析     

The multi-dimensional limiters for solving hyperbolic conservation laws on unstructured grids

Novel limiters based on the weighted average procedure are developed for finite volume methods solving multi-dimensional hyperbolic conservation laws on unstructured grids. The development of these limiters is inspired by the biased averaging procedure of Choi and Liu [10]. The remarkable features of the present limiters are the new biased functions and the weighted average procedure, which enable the present limiter to capture strong shock waves and achieve excellent convergence for steady state computations. The mechanism of the developed limiters for eliminating spurious oscillations in the vicinity of discontinuities is revealed by studying the asymptotic behavior of the limiters. Numerical experiments for a variety of test cases are presented to demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed limiters.     

Unsteady CFD computations using vertex‐centered finite volumes for unstructured grids on Graphics Processing Units

This paper presents a Navier–Stokes solver for steady and unsteady turbulent flows on unstructured/hybrid grids, with triangular and quadrilateral elements, which was implemented to run on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). The paper focuses on programming issues for efficiently porting the CPU code to the GPU, using the CUDA language. Compared with cell‐centered schemes, the use of a vertex‐centered finite volume scheme on unstructured grids increases the programming complexity since the number of nodes connected by edge to any other node might vary a lot. Thus, delicate GPU memory handling is absolutely necessary in order to maximize the speed‐up of the GPU implementation with respect to the Fortran code running on a single CPU core. The developed GPU‐enabled code is used to numerically study steady and unsteady flows around the supercritical airfoil OAT15A, by laying emphasis on the transonic buffet phenomenon. The computations were carried out on NVIDIA's Ge‐Force GTX 285 graphics cards and speed‐ups up to ～46 × (on a single GPU, with double precision arithmetic) are reported. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.