Hybrid Cartesian grid method for moving boundary problems
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Abstract:
A hybrid Cartesian structured grid method is proposed for solving moving boundary unsteady problems. In the present method, the near body region is discretized by using body-fitted structured grids, while the remaining computational domain is tessellated with generated Cartesian grids. As the body moves, the structured grids move with the body and the outer boundaries of inside grids are used to generate new holes in the outside adaptive Cartesian grid to facilitate data communication. By using the alternating digital tree (ADT) algorithm, the computational time of hole-cutting and identification of donor cells could be reduced significantly. A compressible solver for unsteady flow problems is developed. A cell-centered, 2nd-order accurate finite volume method is employed in spatial discretization and an implicit dual-time stepping LU-SGS approach is employed in temporal discretization. Geometry-based adaptation is used during unsteady simulation time steps when boundary moves and the flow solution is interpolated from the old Cartesian grids to the new one with inverse distance weighting interpolation formula. Both laminar and turbulent unsteady cases are tested to demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed method. Then, a 2d store separation problem is simulated. The result shows that the hybrid Cartesian grid method can handle the unsteady flow problems involving large-scale moving boundaries.