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Original Articles

Temporal dynamics of the march-in-time toward the steady solution of advection–diffusion systems

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Pages 174-186 | Received 19 Dec 2016, Accepted 11 Jun 2017, Published online: 31 Jul 2017
 

ABSTRACT

This paper addresses the temporal dynamics of the time marching when this approach is used for determining the steady solution of advection–diffusion problems. The time-step size, δt, is the main parameter and N(δt) is the number of time steps which is needed to reach the steady solution, from a given initial state and according to a pre-defined time-convergence criterion. The measure of N(δt) obtains by proceeding to march in time with a large set of δt values. Four distinct advection–diffusion problems are considered. They are time discretized by a usual second-order Finite-Difference scheme, and their spatial behaviour is computed by using two different spectral solvers. The space-grid parameter is N, the spectral cut-off for any space direction. A universal N(δt) behaviour is observed, giving rise to V-shaped plots when the Courant-Friedrich-Levy instability imposes its control to the march-in-time. Moreover, one of the solvers leads to U-shaped plots for the incompressible-flow configurations in weakly nonlinear regimes. This is the temporal consequence of the time-splitting method that this solver has adopted for uncoupling the velocity from the pressure.

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Funding

LZC would like to acknowledge the support from National Natural Science Foundation of China through Grant [11671166] and [U1530401], China Postdoctoral Science Foundation through Grant [2015M580038]. The second author is particularly grateful to Professor Li-Shi Luo for his kind invitation to visit CSRC.

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