AN UPWIND UNSTRUCTURED GRID SOLUTION ALGORITHM FOR COMPRESSIBLE FLOW

Abstract

An upwind unstructured grid cell‐centred scheme for the solution of the compressible Euler and Navier‐Stokes equations in two dimensions is presented. The algorithm employs a finite volume formulation. Calculation of the inviscid fluxes is based on the approximate Riemann solver of Roe. Viscous fluxes are obtained from solution gradients computed by a variational recovery procedure. Higher order accuracy is achieved through performing a monotonic linear reconstruction of the solution over each cell. The steady state is obtained by a point implicit time integration of the unsteady equations using local time stepping. For supersonic inviscid flow an alternative space marching algorithm is proposed. This latter approach is applicable to supersonic flow fields containing regions of local subsonic flow. Numerical results are presented to show the performance of the proposed scheme for inviscid and viscous flows.

Citation

SOLTANI, S., MORGAN, K. and PERAIRE, J. (1993), "AN UPWIND UNSTRUCTURED GRID SOLUTION ALGORITHM FOR COMPRESSIBLE FLOW", International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, Vol. 3 No. 4, pp. 283-304. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb017532