Solving the Euler Equations Using Adaptive Mesh Motion and Refinement

Abstract

We use an adaptive mesh moving and refinement finite volume method to solve the transient Euler equations of compressible flow in one and two space dimensions. Numerical solutions are generated by a MacCormack scheme with Davis's artificial viscosity model. Richardson's extrapolation is used to calculate estimates of the local discretization error which can be used to control mesh motion and refinement. Questions regarding the optimal combination of adaptive strategies and the characterization of the initial mesh are investigated. Results indicate that local mesh refinement with and without mesh moving provide dramatic improvements in accuracy over uniform mesh solutions; that mesh motion provides good results on relatively fine initial meshes; that each problem has an optimal initial mesh and that it is more efficient to begin with a coarser than optimal mesh and refine rather than starting with too fine a mesh; and that a combination of both the adaptive strategies produced the most accurate solutions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA252364

Entities

People

  • David C. Arney
  • J. E. Flaherty
  • Rupak Biswas

Organizations

  • United States Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Compressible Flow
  • Computations
  • Differential Equations
  • Equations
  • Errors
  • Euler Equations
  • Extrapolation
  • Mathematics
  • Military Research
  • Partial Differential Equations
  • Security
  • Standards
  • Two Dimensional
  • United States Military Academy
  • Viscosity

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  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Fluid Dynamics.

Technology Areas

  • Space