Viscous flow in domains with corners: numerical artifacts, their origin and removal

DOI10.1016/J.CMA.2010.12.005MaRDI QIDQ646329zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors J. E. Sprittles, Y. D. Shikhmurzaev

Publication date 16 November 2011

Published in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.0566

zbMATH Keywords

fluid mechanicsfinite elementdynamic wettingviscous corner flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Stokes and related (Oseen, etc.) flows (76D07) Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M10)

Abstract: We show that an attempt to compute numerically a viscous flow in a domain with a piece-wise smooth boundary by straightforwardly applying well-tested numerical algorithms (and numerical codes based on their use, such as COMSOL Multiphysics) can lead to spurious multivaluedness and nonintegrable singularities in the distribution of the fluid's pressure. The origin of this difficulty is that, near a corner formed by smooth parts of the piece-wise smooth boundary, in addition to the solution of the inhomogeneous problem, there is also an eigensolution. For obtuse corner angles this eigensolution (a) becomes dominant and (b) has a singular radial derivative of velocity at the corner. A method is developed that uses the knowledge about the eigensolution to remove multivaluedness and nonintegrability of the pressure. The method is first explained in the simple case of a Stokes flow in a corner region and then generalised for the full-scale unsteady Navier-Stokes flow in a domain with a free surface.

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• COMSOL

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