High-order ALE method for the Navier–Stokes equations on a moving hybrid unstructured mesh using flux reconstruction method

Abstract

The flux reconstruction (FR) formulation can unify several popular discontinuous basis high-order methods for fluid dynamics, including the discontinuous Galerkin method, in a simple, efficient form. An arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian (ALE) extension to the high-order FR scheme is developed here for moving mesh fluid flow problems. The ALE Navier–Stokes equations are derived by introducing a grid velocity. The conservation law are spatially discretised on hybrid unstructured meshes using Huynh’s scheme (Huynh 2007) on anisotropic elements (quadrilaterals) and using Correction Procedure via Reconstruction scheme on isotropic elements (triangles). The temporal discretisation uses both explicit and implicit treatments. The mesh movement is described by node positions given as a time series, instead of an analytical formula. The geometric conservation law is tested using free stream preservation problem. An isentropic vortex propagation test case is performed to show the high-order accuracy of the developed method on both moving and fixed hybrid meshes. Flow around an oscillating cylinder shows the capability of the method to solve moving boundary viscous flow problems, with the numeric method further verified by comparison of the result on a smoothly deforming mesh and a rigid moving mesh.

Keywords:

• moving mesh
• arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian (ALE)
• geometric conservation law (GCL)
• high-order method
• Navier–Stokes equation
• flux reconstruction

Acknowledgements

This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51076083).

BoXer(TM) developed by “Cambridge Flow Solutions” generated an initial static mesh used in this paper.