Evaluation of multigrid acceleration for preconditioned time-accurate Navier-Stokes algorithms (Q1369547)

We describe the development of a two-dimensional time-accurate dual time step Navier-Stokes flow solver with time-derivative preconditioning and multigrid acceleration. The governing equations are integrated in time with both an explicit Runge-Kutta scheme and an implicit lower-upper symmetric-Gauss-Seidel scheme in a finite volume framework, yielding second-order accuracy in space and time. Issues concerning the implementation of multigrid for preconditioned, dual time step algorithms are discussed. Steady and unsteady computations were made of lid driven cavity flow, thermally driven cavity flow and pulsatile channel flow for a variety of conditions to validate the schemes.