Computational Methods for Problems in Aerodynamics Using Parallel and Vector Architectures

Abstract

The effort to use spectral methods to simulate flows with shock waves is summarized in four published papers. In (2) the authors study uniform high order spectral methods to solve multi-dimensional Euler equations for gas dynamics. Uniform high order spectral approximations with spectral accuracy in smooth regions of solutions are constructed by introducing the idea of the Essentially Non-Oscillatory (ENO) polynomial interpolations into the spectral methods. Based on the new approximations, nonoscillatory spectral methods which possess the properties of both upwinding difference schemes and spectral methods were proposed. Numerical results are presented for the inviscid Burger's equation, and for one dimensional Euler equations including the interactions between a shock wave and density disturbance, Sod's and Lax's shock the problems, and the blast wave problem. Finally, the interaction between a Mach 3 two dimensional shock wave and a rotating vortex is simulated.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 07, 1993
Accession Number
ADA265626

Entities

People

  • David Gottlieb

Organizations

  • Brown University

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Boundary Layer
  • Boundary Value Problems
  • Chebyshev Polynomials
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Differential Equations
  • Equations
  • Euler Equations
  • Frequency
  • Navier Stokes Equations
  • Optimization
  • Partial Differential Equations
  • Periodic Functions
  • Polynomials
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

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  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)