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An immersed-boundary method for compressible viscous flow and its application in gas-kinetic BGK scheme

Computational Physics 2016-11-07 v1 Fluid Dynamics

Abstract

An immersed-boundary (IB) method is proposed and applied in the gas-kinetic BGK scheme to simulate incompressible/compressible viscous flow with stationary/moving boundary. In present method the ghost-cell technique is adopted to fulfill the boundary condition on the immersed boundary. A novel idea "local boundary determination" is put forward to identify the ghost cells, each of which may have several different ghost-cell constructions corresponding to different boundary segments, thus eliminating the singularity of the ghost cell. Furthermore, the so-called "fresh-cell" problem when implementing the IB method in moving-boundary simulation is resolved by a simple extrapolation in time. The method is firstly applied in the gas-kinetic BGK scheme to simulate the Taylor-Couette flow, where the second-order spatial accuracy of the method is validated and the "super-convergence" of the BGK scheme is observed. Then the test cases of supersonic flow around a stationary cylinder, incompressible flow around an oscillating cylinder and compressible flow around a moving airfoil are conducted to verify the capability of the present method in simulating compressible flows and handling the moving boundary.

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@article{arxiv.1611.01447,
  title  = {An immersed-boundary method for compressible viscous flow and its application in gas-kinetic BGK scheme},
  author = {Ruifeng Yuan and Chengwen Zhong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.01447},
  year   = {2016}
}

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43 pages