Adaptive boundary conditions for exterior stationary flows in three dimensions

DOI10.1007/S00021-009-0302-9zbMATH Open1270.76019arXiv0803.0338OpenAlexW2004755167MaRDI QIDQ361091FDOQ361091

Authors: V. Heuveline, Peter Wittwer 

Publication date: 28 August 2013

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Recently there has been an increasing interest for a better understanding of ultra low Reynolds number flows. In this context we present a new setup which allows to efficiently solve the stationary incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in an exterior domain in three dimensions numerically. The main point is that the necessity to truncate for numerical purposes the exterior domain to a finite sub-domain leads to the problem of finding so called "artificial boundary conditions" to replace the conditions at infinity. To solve this problem we provide a vector filed that describes the leading asymptotic behavior of the solution at large distances. This vector field depends explicitly on drag and lift which are determined in a self-consistent way as part of the solution process. When compared with other numerical schemes the size of the computational domain that is needed to obtain the hydrodynamic forces with a given precision is drastically reduced, which in turn leads to an overall gain in computational efficiency of typically several orders of magnitude.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0803.0338

Recommendations

• Adaptive boundary conditions for exterior flow problems
• Nonlinear artificial boundary conditions with pointwise error estimates for the exterior three dimensional Navier–Stokes problem
• Second-order adaptive boundary conditions for exterior flow problems: Non-symmetric stationary flows in two dimensions
• Artificial boundary conditions for stationary Navier-Stokes flows past bodies in the half-plane
• Artificial boundary conditions for the exterior spatial Navier–Stokes problem

zbMATH Keywords

liftNavier-Stokes equationsdragartificial boundary conditions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M10)

Cited In (5)

• Second-order adaptive boundary conditions for exterior flow problems: Non-symmetric stationary flows in two dimensions
• Artificial boundary conditions for stationary Navier-Stokes flows past bodies in the half-plane
• Adaptive boundary conditions for exterior flow problems
• Leading order asymptotics of stationary Navier-Stokes flows in the presence of a wall
• Existence of stationary solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations in the presence of a wall

This page was built for publication: Adaptive boundary conditions for exterior stationary flows in three dimensions

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q361091)