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Finite element analysis of low speed viscous and inviscid aerodynamic flows
A weak interaction solution algorithm was established for aerodynamic flow about an isolated airfoil. Finite element numerical methodology was applied to solution of each of differential equations governing potential flow, and viscous and turbulent boundary layer and wake flow downstream of the sharp trailing edge. The algorithm accounts for computed viscous displacement effects on the potential flow. Closure for turbulence was accomplished using both first and second order models. The COMOC finite element fluid mechanics computer program was modified to solve the identified equation systems for two dimensional flows. A numerical program was completed to determine factors affecting solution accuracy, convergence and stability for the combined potential, boundary layer, and parabolic Navier-Stokes equation systems. Good accuracy and convergence are demonstrated. Each solution is obtained within the identical finite element framework of COMOC
Spatially Adaptive Stochastic Multigrid Methods for Fluid-Structure Systems with Thermal Fluctuations
In microscopic mechanical systems interactions between elastic structures are
often mediated by the hydrodynamics of a solvent fluid. At microscopic scales
the elastic structures are also subject to thermal fluctuations. Stochastic
numerical methods are developed based on multigrid which allow for the
efficient computation of both the hydrodynamic interactions in the presence of
walls and the thermal fluctuations. The presented stochastic multigrid approach
provides efficient real-space numerical methods for generating the required
stochastic driving fields with long-range correlations consistent with
statistical mechanics. The presented approach also allows for the use of
spatially adaptive meshes in resolving the hydrodynamic interactions. Numerical
results are presented which show the methods perform in practice with a
computational complexity of O(N log(N))
An efficient parallel immersed boundary algorithm using a pseudo-compressible fluid solver
We propose an efficient algorithm for the immersed boundary method on
distributed-memory architectures, with the computational complexity of a
completely explicit method and excellent parallel scaling. The algorithm
utilizes the pseudo-compressibility method recently proposed by Guermond and
Minev [Comptes Rendus Mathematique, 348:581-585, 2010] that uses a directional
splitting strategy to discretize the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations,
thereby reducing the linear systems to a series of one-dimensional tridiagonal
systems. We perform numerical simulations of several fluid-structure
interaction problems in two and three dimensions and study the accuracy and
convergence rates of the proposed algorithm. For these problems, we compare the
proposed algorithm against other second-order projection-based fluid solvers.
Lastly, the strong and weak scaling properties of the proposed algorithm are
investigated
Proper orthogonal decomposition closure models for fluid flows: Burgers equation
This paper puts forth several closure models for the proper orthogonal
decomposition (POD) reduced order modeling of fluid flows. These new closure
models, together with other standard closure models, are investigated in the
numerical simulation of the Burgers equation. This simplified setting
represents just the first step in the investigation of the new closure models.
It allows a thorough assessment of the performance of the new models, including
a parameter sensitivity study. Two challenging test problems displaying moving
shock waves are chosen in the numerical investigation. The closure models and a
standard Galerkin POD reduced order model are benchmarked against the fine
resolution numerical simulation. Both numerical accuracy and computational
efficiency are used to assess the performance of the models
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