Fourier time spectral method for subsonic and transonic flows |
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Authors: | Lei Zhan Feng Liu Dimitri Papamoschou |
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Affiliation: | 1. School of Aeronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China;2. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA |
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Abstract: | The time accuracy of the exponentially accu-rate Fourier time spectral method (TSM) is examined and compared with a conventional 2nd-order backward differ-ence formula (BDF) method for periodic unsteady flows. In particular, detailed error analysis based on numerical com-putations is performed on the accuracy of resolving the local pressure coefficient and global integrated force coefficients for smooth subsonic and non-smooth transonic flows with moving shock waves on a pitching airfoil. For smooth sub-sonic flows, the Fourier TSM method offers a significant accuracy advantage over the BDF method for the predic-tion of both the local pressure coefficient and integrated force coefficients. For transonic flows where the motion of the discontinuous shock wave contributes significant higher-order harmonic contents to the local pressure fluctuations, a sufficient number of modes must be included before the Fourier TSM provides an advantage over the BDF method. The Fourier TSM, however, still offers better accuracy than the BDF method for integrated force coefficients even for transonic flows. A problem of non-symmetric solutions for symmetric periodic flows due to the use of odd numbers of intervals is uncovered and analyzed. A frequency-searching method is proposed for problems where the frequency is not known a priori. The method is tested on the vortex shedding problem of the flow over a circular cylinder. |
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Keywords: | Fourier time spectral method (TSM) Pitching airfoil Transonic flow Non-symmetric solution Computational efficiency Vortex shedding flow Frequency search |
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