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In this work, a localized artificial-viscosity/diffusivity method is proposed for accurately capturing discontinuities in compressible flows. There have been numerous efforts to improve the artificial diffusivity formulation in the last two…
In recent years, high-order discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods have emerged as an attractive approach for numerical simulations of compressible flows. This paper presents an overview of the recent development of DG methods for compressible…
Modern shock-capturing schemes often suffer from numerical shock anomalies if the flow field contains strong shocks, which may limit their further application in hypersonic flow computations. In the current study, we devote our efforts to…
A new approach to prevent spurious behavior caused by conventional shock-capturing schemes when solving stiff detonation waves problems is introduced in the present work. Due to smearing of discontinuous solution by the excessive numerical…
In this work, a novel artificial viscosity method is proposed using smooth and compactly supported viscosities. These are derived by revisiting the widely used piecewise constant artificial viscosity method of Persson and Peraire as well as…
In the quest for advanced propulsion and power-generation systems, high-fidelity simulations are too computationally expensive to survey the desired design space, and a new design methodology is needed that combines engineering physics,…
This work presents GALAEXI as a novel, energy-efficient flow solver for the simulation of compressible flows on unstructured meshes leveraging the parallel computing power of modern Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). GALAEXI implements the…
Simulations of elastic turbulence, the chaotic flow of highly elastic and inertialess polymer solutions, are plagued by numerical difficulties: The chaotically advected polymer conformation tensor develops extremely large gradients and can…
The idea of using fast sweeping methods for solving stationary systems of conservation laws has previously been proposed for efficiently computing solutions with sharp shocks. We further develop these methods to allow for a more challenging…
We present a novel, cell-local shock detector for use with discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods. The output of this detector is a reliably scaled, element-wise smoothness estimate which is suited as a control input to a shock capture…
We present a wall model for large-eddy simulation that incorporates surface-roughness effects and is applicable across low- and high-speed flows, for both transitional and fully rough conditions. The model, implemented using an artificial…
Direct numerical simulations (DNS) are one of the main ab initio tools to study turbulent flows. However, due to their considerable computational cost, DNS are primarily restricted to canonical flows at moderate Reynolds numbers, in which…