Multirate Timestepping for the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations in Overlapping Grids

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2021.110335MaRDI QIDQ6335889arXivFDO

Authors Ketan Mittal, Som Dutta, P. Fischer

Publication date 29 February 2020

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/J.JCP.2021.110335

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical methods for ordinary differential equations (65Lxx) Numerical methods for partial differential equations, initial value and time-dependent initial-boundary value problems (65Mxx) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76Mxx)

arXiv classification

cs.NAmath.NAphysics.flu-dyn

Abstract: We develop a multirate timestepper for semi-implicit solutions of the unsteady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations (INSE) based on a recently-developed multidomain spectral element method (SEM). For {em incompressible} flows, multirate timestepping (MTS) is particularly challenging because of the tight coupling implied by the incompressibility constraint, which manifests as an elliptic subproblem for the pressure at each timestep. The novelty of our approach stems from the development of a stable overlapping Schwarz method applied directly to the Navier-Stokes equations, rather than to the convective, viscous, and pressure substeps that are at the heart of most INSE solvers. Our MTS approach is based on a predictor-corrector (PC) strategy that preserves the temporal convergence of the underlying semi-implicit timestepper. We present numerical results demonstrating that this approach scales to an arbitrary number of overlapping grids, accurately models complex turbulent flow phenomenon, and improves computational efficiency in comparison to singlerate timestepping-based calculations.

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