An implicit high-order spectral difference approach for large eddy simulation

The filtered fluid dynamic equations are discretized in space by a high-order spectral difference (SD) method coupled with large eddy simulation (LES) approach. The subgrid-scale stress tensor is modelled by the wall-adapting local eddy-viscosity model (WALE). We solve the unsteady equations by advancing in time using a second-order backward difference formulae (BDF2) scheme. The nonlinear algebraic system arising from the time discretization is solved with the nonlinear lower–upper symmetric Gauss–Seidel (LU-SGS) algorithm. In order to study the sensitivity of the method, first, the implicit solver is used to compute the two-dimensional (2D) laminar flow around a NACA0012 airfoil at Re = 5 × 10⁵ with zero angle of attack. Afterwards, the accuracy and the reliability of the solver are tested by solving the 2D “turbulent” flow around a square cylinder at Re = 10⁴ and Re =  2.2 × 10⁴. The results show a good agreement with the experimental data and the reference solutions.     

Acceleration on stretched meshes with line-implicit LU-SGS in parallel implementation

The implicit lower–upper symmetric Gauss–Seidel (LU-SGS) solver is combined with the line-implicit technique to improve convergence on the very anisotropic grids necessary for resolving the boundary layers. The computational fluid dynamics code used is Edge, a Navier–Stokes flow solver for unstructured grids based on a dual grid and edge-based formulation. Multigrid acceleration is applied with the intention to accelerate the convergence to steady state. LU-SGS works in parallel and gives better linear scaling with respect to the number of processors, than the explicit scheme. The ordering techniques investigated have shown that node numbering does influence the convergence and that the orderings from Delaunay and advancing front generation were among the best tested. 2D Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes computations have clearly shown the strong efficiency of our novel approach line-implicit LU-SGS which is four times faster than implicit LU-SGS and line-implicit Runge–Kutta. Implicit LU-SGS for Euler and line-implicit LU-SGS for Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes are at least twice faster than explicit and line-implicit Runge–Kutta, respectively, for 2D and 3D cases. For 3D Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes, multigrid did not accelerate the convergence and therefore may not be needed.     

A Fast,Matrix-free Implicit Method for Computing Low Mach Number Flows on Unstructured Grids

A fast, matrix-free implicit method has been developed to solve low Mach number flow problems on unstructured grids. The preconditioned compressible Euler and Navier-Stokes equations are integrated in time using a linearized implicit scheme. A newly developed fast, matrix-free implicit method, GMRES + LU?SGS, is then applied to solve the resultant system of linear equations. A variety of computations has been made for a wide range of flow conditions, for both in viscid and viscous flows, in both 2D and 3D to validate the developed method and to evaluate the effectiveness of the GMRES + LU?SGS method. The numerical results obtained indicate that the use of the GMRES + LU?SGS method leads to a significant increase in performance over the LU?SGS method, while maintaining memory requirements similar to its explicit counterpart. An overall speedup factor from one to more than two order of magnitude for all test cases in comparison with the explicit method is demonstrated.     

Stability Analysis of a Fully Coupled Implicit Scheme for Inviscid Chemical Non-Equilibrium Flows

Von Neumann stability theory is applied to analyze the stability of a fully coupled implicit (FCI) scheme based on the lower-upper symmetric Gauss-Seidel (LU-SGS) method for inviscid chemical non-equilibrium flows. The FCI scheme shows excellent stability except the case of the flows involving strong recombination reactions, and can weaken or even eliminate the instability resulting from the stiffness problem, which occurs in the subsonic high-temperature region of the hypersonic flow field. In addition, when the full Jacobian of chemical source term is diagonalized, the stability of the FCI scheme relies heavily on the flow conditions. Especially in the case of high temperature and subsonic state, the CFL number satisfying the stability is very small. Moreover, we also consider the effect of the space step, and demonstrate that the stability of the FCI scheme with the diagonalized Jacobian can be improved by reducing the space step. Therefore, we propose an improved method on the grid distribution according to the flow conditions. Numerical tests validate sufficiently the foregoing analyses. Based on the improved grid, the CFL number can be quickly ramped up to large values for convergence acceleration.     

基于Euler方程和离散共轭方法的气动外形优化设计

对于基于梯度信息的优化设计方法,很重要的一点是快速准确获得目标函数对设计变量的梯度.本文采用离散共轭方法计算目标函数关于设计变量的梯度,流动控制方程为三维Euler方程.对于离散共轭方程和流动控制方程均采用LU-SGS方法求解.算例表明,该方法能快速准确地获得目标函数的梯度.本文采用该方法进行了机翼和全机优化设计,成功地减弱了激波,降低了总阻力.算例证明了本文方法可靠性好,收敛快.     

三角翼大迎角非对称旋涡破裂数值模拟

采用由伪时间子迭代格式实现的二阶精度LU SGS方法进行时间推进,并以Jameson中心加人工粘性格式进行空间离散,应用层流假设和Baldwin Lomax(B-L)模式,求解雷诺平均的薄层Navier Stokes(N-S)方程组以模拟细长三角翼大迎角流动.为验证本方法,首先计算了具备实验数据的65°后掠角三角翼大迎角流场,获得令人满意的结果;然后模拟了80°后掠角的细长三角翼,研究其大迎角非对称旋涡破裂特性.     

非结构隐式LU-SGS方法在空心弹丸流场数值模拟中的应用

采用非结构网格的LU-SGS隐式算法计算三维Euler方程，数值模拟了不同 马赫数以及不同攻角下某空心弹丸绕流流场，分析了流场的波系结构及其升阻力特性，计算 结果表明空心弹丸的阻力系数比同口径的普通弹丸的阻力系数大约小30{\%}，空心弹丸的 阻力系数以及升力系数随攻角的变化规律与普通弹丸一致.     

非结构隐式方法在空心弹丸流场模拟中的应用

采用非结构网格的LU-SGS隐式算法计算三维Euler方程,数值模拟了不同马赫数以及不同攻角下某空心弹丸绕流流场,分析了流场的波系结构及其升阻力特性,计算结果表明空心弹丸的阻力系数比同口径的普通弹丸的阻力系数大约小30％,空心弹丸的阻力系数以及升力系数随攻角的变化规律与普通弹丸一致．     

A Multigrid Block LU-SGS Algorithm for Euler Equations on Unstructured Grids

We propose an efficient and robust algorithm to solve the steady Euler equa- tions on unstructured grids.The new algorithm is a Newton-iteration method in which each iteration step is a linear multigrid method using block lower-upper symmetric Gauss-Seidel(LU-SGS)iteration as its smoother To regularize the Jacobian matrix of Newton-iteration,we adopted a local residual dependent regularization as the replace- ment of the standard time-stepping relaxation technique based on the local CFL number The proposed method can be extended to high order approximations and three spatial dimensions in a nature way.The solver was tested on a sequence of benchmark prob- lems on both quasi-uniform and local adaptive meshes.The numerical results illustrated the efficiency and robustness of our algorithm.