Numerical treatment of grid interfaces for viscous flows (Q1184642)

The present work both develops and investigates interface treatment schemes that have certain properties such as accuracy and conservation. It is a novel study of interfaces for the case of viscous flow computations. Various treatments are proposed and evaluated with the emphasis being laid on a comparison between accurate and conservative treatments. Two methodologies have been followed in order to study interface treatments. The first is analytical and yields orders of possible numerical errors, while the second approach employs model test cases, which are especially designed to evaluate certain aspects of the described interface treatments. Also, a transonic airfoil flow case is included as an example of accuracy and robustness of a particular interface treatment scheme.