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Industrial scale large eddy simulations (LES) with adaptive octree meshes using immersogeometric analysis

Numerical Analysis 2021-06-08 v2 Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science Numerical Analysis Fluid Dynamics

Abstract

We present a variant of the immersed boundary method integrated with octree meshes for highly efficient and accurate Large-Eddy Simulations (LES) of flows around complex geometries. We demonstrate the scalability of the proposed method up to O(32K)\mathcal{O}(32K) processors. This is achieved by (a) rapid in-out tests; (b) adaptive quadrature for an accurate evaluation of forces; (c) tensorized evaluation during matrix assembly. We showcase this method on two non-trivial applications: accurately computing the drag coefficient of a sphere across Reynolds numbers 11061-10^6 encompassing the drag crisis regime; simulating flow features across a semi-truck for investigating the effect of platooning on efficiency.

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@article{arxiv.2009.00706,
  title  = {Industrial scale large eddy simulations (LES) with adaptive octree meshes using immersogeometric analysis},
  author = {Kumar Saurabh and Boshun Gao and Milinda Fernando and Songzhe Xu and Makrand A. Khanwale and Biswajit Khara and Ming-Chen Hsu and Adarsh Krishnamurthy and Hari Sundar and Baskar Ganapathysubramanian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.00706},
  year   = {2021}
}

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Accepted for publication at Computer and Mathematics with Applications