Viscous flow applications

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Publication date 5 June 1993

Published in Topics in Boundary Element Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Boundary Element Method boundary elements boundary integral equations boundary layer effects penalty function pseudo-body force formulation steady state Navier-Stokes type problems Stokes flow viscous flow Viscous flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc. pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-06) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

Review text

[The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually.] The Boundary Element Method has now become a powerful tool of engineering analysis and is routinely applied for the solution of elastostatic and potential problems. More recently research has concentrated on solving a large variety of nonlinear and time-dependent applications and in particular the method has been developed for visvous fluid flow problems. This book presents the state of the art on the solution of viscous flow using boundary elements and discusses different current approaches which have been validated by numerical experiments. Chapter 1 of the book presents a brief review of previous work on viscous flow simulation and in particular gives an up-to-date list of the most important BEM references in the field. Chapter 2 reviews the governing equations for general viscous flow, including compressibility. The authors present a comprehensive treatment of the different cases and their formulation in terms of boundary integral equations. Chapter 3 describes the generalized formulation for unsteady viscous flow problems developed over many years at Georgia Institute of Technology. This formulation has been extensively applied to solve aerodynamic problems. The approach followed in Chapter 4 is the velocity-vorticity formulation plus the inclusion of special integral expressions for the energy equation and the computation of pressure fields. The approach has been validated by numerical experiments. The procedure proposed in Chapter 5 for the solution of steady state Navier-Stokes type problems is different from that in Chapters 2 and 3 as it is based on a pseudo-body force formulation employing the penalty function approach. Chapter 6 discusses how the boundary layer effects can be introduced in potential flow. It deals with the coupling of FDM and BEM. The authors proposed solving the boundary layer flow using finite difference and then combining that solution with boundary elements for the outer flow. Chapter 7 is based on the research carried out for the solution of non- Newtonian fluis using also a concept of ``pseudo-forces related to that described in Chapter 4. The last Chapter of the book deals with the solution of Stokes flow as a particular type of viscous fluid. This Chapter applies the fundamental solution for Stokes flow to solve convective problems at low Re numbers. This book presents the state of the art in BEM solution of viscous flow problems and describes the work carried out up to now at the most important boundary element research centres. It is essential reading for any scientists or engineering who need to be aware of the applications of the new method in this important field.

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