Poloidal-toroidal decomposition in a finite cylinder. II: Discretization, regularization and validation

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2007.08.035zbMATH Open1126.76056arXiv0705.0785OpenAlexW2068568713MaRDI QIDQ2465009FDOQ2465009

Authors: Piotr Boronski, Laurette S. Tuckerman 

Publication date: 18 December 2007

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

Abstract: The Navier-Stokes equations in a finite cylinder are written in terms of poloidal and toroidal potentials in order to impose incompressibility. Regularity of the solutions is ensured in several ways: First, the potentials are represented using a spectral basis which is analytic at the cylindrical axis. Second, the non-physical discontinuous boundary conditions at the cylindrical corners are smoothed using a polynomial approximation to a steep exponential profile. Third, the nonlinear term is evaluated in such a way as to eliminate singularities. The resulting pseudo-spectral code is tested using exact polynomial solutions and the spectral convergence of the coefficients is demonstrated. Our solutions are shown to agree with exact polynomial solutions and with previous axisymmetric calculations of vortex breakdown and of nonaxisymmetric calculations of onset of helical spirals. Parallelization by azimuthal wavenumber is shown to be highly effective.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.0785

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zbMATH Keywords

spectral convergencevortex breakdownpseudo-spectral code

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spectral methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M22) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05)

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