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An Efficient Sliding Mesh Interface Method for High-Order Discontinuous Galerkin Schemes
Sliding meshes are a powerful method to treat deformed domains in
computational fluid dynamics, where different parts of the domain are in
relative motion. In this paper, we present an efficient implementation of a
sliding mesh method into a discontinuous Galerkin compressible Navier-Stokes
solver and its application to a large eddy simulation of a 1-1/2 stage turbine.
The method is based on the mortar method and is high-order accurate. It can
handle three-dimensional sliding mesh interfaces with various interface shapes.
For plane interfaces, which are the most common case, conservativity and
free-stream preservation are ensured. We put an emphasis on efficient parallel
implementation. Our implementation generates little computational and storage
overhead. Inter-node communication via MPI in a dynamically changing mesh
topology is reduced to a bare minimum by ensuring a priori information about
communication partners and data sorting. We provide performance and scaling
results showing the capability of the implementation strategy. Apart from
analytical validation computations and convergence results, we present a
wall-resolved implicit LES of the 1-1/2 stage Aachen turbine test case as a
large scale practical application example