A radial basis function partition of unity method for steady flow simulations

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2024.112842MaRDI QIDQ6129919zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Francisco Bernal, Ali Safdari-Vaighani, Elisabeth Larsson

Publication date 17 April 2024

Published in Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04604

zbMATH Keywords

computational fluid mechanicsflow past a cylinderpartition of unityradial basis functiontrust-region methodunbounded domain

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximations and expansions (41Axx) Numerical methods for partial differential equations, boundary value problems (65Nxx) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76Mxx)

Abstract: A methodology is presented for the numerical solution of nonlinear elliptic systems in unbounded domains, consisting of three elements. First, the problem is posed on a finite domain by means of a proper nonlinear change of variables. The compressed domain is then discretised, regardless of its final shape, via the radial basis function partition of unity method. Finally, the system of nonlinear algebraic collocation equations is solved with the trust-region algorithm, taking advantage of analytically derived Jacobians. We validate the methodology on a benchmark of computational fluid mechanics: the steady viscous flow past a circular cylinder. The resulting flow characteristics compare very well with the literature. Then, we stress-test the methodology on less smooth obstacles - rounded and sharp square cylinders. As expected, in the latter scenario the solution is polluted by spurious oscillations, owing to the presence of boundary singularities.

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