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Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications
An International Journal of Computation and Methodology
Volume 70, 2016 - Issue 4
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A fast and stabilized meshless method for the convection-dominated convection-diffusion problems

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Pages 420-431 | Received 18 Dec 2015, Accepted 11 Mar 2016, Published online: 13 Jul 2016
 

ABSTRACT

This paper presents a fast and stabilized meshless method that combines variational multi-scale element free Galerkin (VMEFG) method and proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) method, namely VMEFG&POD, to solve convection-diffusion problems. Variational multi-scale method is applied to overcome the numerical oscillation for the convection-dominated problems and the POD method is used to improve the computational efficiency of the VMEFG method. This method is validated by considering the simulation of two-dimensional convection-diffusion problems with a small diffusion coefficient. It is demonstrated that the proposed method can largely improve the computational efficiency without a significant loss in accuracy.

Nomenclature

a=

known convection velocity

b1=

bubble function for the trial solution

b2=

bubble function for the weighting function

d=

the degree of freedom of the model

e(l)=

the error of energy

f=

known source term

F=

the right-hand side vector

=

reduced load vector of F

m=

the number of snapshots

M=

mass matrix

=

reduced system matrix of M

k=

diffusion coefficient

K=

a matrix related to the space

=

reduced system matrix of K

l=

the number of singular values

L2=

error norm

S=

a rectangular m × d matrix

u=

unknown field variable

u(t)=

an unknown vector

usnap=

a rectangular m × d matrix

=

reduced new unknown vector

=

trial function in coarse scale

u′(t, x)=

trial function in fine scale

V=

the space of weighting functions

V1=

orthogonal matrix

V2=

orthogonal matrix

w=

weighting function

W=

coarse-scale problem

W=

fine-scale problem

=

weighting function in coarse scale

w′(t, x)=

weighting function in fine scale

Ω=

bounded domain

Ω=

the boundary of the bounded domain

ΩK=

background integral cell

=

the residual of equation

τ=

the stability parameter of VMEFG method

σ=

reaction coefficient

λi=

singular values of matrixusnap

Φ=

optimal orthonormal basis

ψ(t, x)=

the prescribed boundary condition

Δt=

time-step

Nomenclature

a=

known convection velocity

b1=

bubble function for the trial solution

b2=

bubble function for the weighting function

d=

the degree of freedom of the model

e(l)=

the error of energy

f=

known source term

F=

the right-hand side vector

=

reduced load vector of F

m=

the number of snapshots

M=

mass matrix

=

reduced system matrix of M

k=

diffusion coefficient

K=

a matrix related to the space

=

reduced system matrix of K

l=

the number of singular values

L2=

error norm

S=

a rectangular m × d matrix

u=

unknown field variable

u(t)=

an unknown vector

usnap=

a rectangular m × d matrix

=

reduced new unknown vector

=

trial function in coarse scale

u′(t, x)=

trial function in fine scale

V=

the space of weighting functions

V1=

orthogonal matrix

V2=

orthogonal matrix

w=

weighting function

W=

coarse-scale problem

W=

fine-scale problem

=

weighting function in coarse scale

w′(t, x)=

weighting function in fine scale

Ω=

bounded domain

Ω=

the boundary of the bounded domain

ΩK=

background integral cell

=

the residual of equation

τ=

the stability parameter of VMEFG method

σ=

reaction coefficient

λi=

singular values of matrixusnap

Φ=

optimal orthonormal basis

ψ(t, x)=

the prescribed boundary condition

Δt=

time-step

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