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A Unified Fractional-Step, Artificial Compressibility and Pressure-Projection Formulation for Solving the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2015

László Könözsy  and
Dimitris Drikakis
László Könözsy*
Affiliation:
Fluid Mechanics and Computational Science, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, MK43 0AL, United Kingdom
Dimitris Drikakis*
Affiliation:
Fluid Mechanics and Computational Science, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, MK43 0AL, United Kingdom
*
Corresponding author.Email:laszlo.konozsy@cranfield.ac.uk
Email:d.drikakis@cranfield.ac.uk
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Abstract

This paper introduces a unified concept and algorithm for the fractional-step (FS), artificial compressibility (AC) and pressure-projection (PP) methods for solving the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. The proposed FSAC-PP approach falls into the group of pseudo-time splitting high-resolution methods incorporating the characteristics-based (CB) Godunov-type treatment of convective terms with PP methods. Due to the fact that the CB Godunov-type methods are applicable directly to the hyperbolic AC formulation and not to the elliptical FS-PP (split) methods, thus the straightforward coupling of CB Godunov-type schemes with PP methods is not possible. Therefore, the proposed FSAC-PP approach unifies the fully-explicit AC and semi-implicit FS-PP methods of Chorin including a PP step in the dual-time stepping procedure to a) overcome the numerical stiffness of the classical AC approach at (very) low and moderate Reynolds numbers, b) incorporate the accuracy and convergence properties of CB Godunov-type schemes with PP methods, and c) further improve the stability and efficiency of the AC method for steady and unsteady flow problems. The FSAC-PPmethod has also been coupled with a non-linear, full-multigrid and fullapproximation storage (FMG-FAS) technique to further increase the efficiency of the solution. For validating the proposed FSAC-PP method, computational examples are presented for benchmark problems. The overall results show that the unified FSAC-PP approach is an efficient algorithm for solving incompressible flow problems.

Keywords

76D0565M0865B9965Y20Navier-Stokes equationscharacteristics-based Godunov-type schemeunified method
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Research Article
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Communications in Computational Physics , Volume 16 , Issue 5 , November 2014 , pp. 1135 - 1180
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Copyright © Global Science Press Limited 2014

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