Efficient High-Order Accurate Methods using Unstructured Grids for Hydrodynamics and Acoustics

Abstract

The objective of this project has been the development of high-order accurate simulation techniques for fluid flow problems of interest to the US Navy, such as hydrodynamics and acoustics. Efficient solution techniques for high-order Discontinuous Galerkin methods have been investigated from both a theoretical and practical standpoint. An h-p multigrid solution strategy which delivers optimal convergence rates which are independent of both the order of accuracy p of the discretization, and the resolution h of the mesh has been developed and demonstrated on steady and unsteady problems, showing good efficiency and parallel scalability using up to 2000 processors. Sensitivity analysis techniques-based on the solution of the adjoint problem have also been developed, and used to drive h and p adaptive refinement techniques for increasing accuracy at optimal cost. Future work will concentrate on extending these techniques to three dimensional Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations and large eddy simulations LES for important flows of Naval interest.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 31, 2007
Accession Number
ADA471844

Entities

People

  • Dan Stanescu
  • Dimitri J. Mavriplis

Organizations

  • University of Wyoming

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustics
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Differential Equations
  • Euler Equations
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Geometry
  • Hydrodynamics
  • Large Eddy Simulation
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Numerical Methods And Procedures
  • Turbulent Mixing
  • Two Dimensional
  • Viscous Flow

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)