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A high-order nodal discontinuous Galerkin method for simulation of three-dimensional non-cavitating/cavitating flows

Hajihassanpour, M ; Sharif University of Technology | 2022

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1016/j.finel.2021.103681
  3. Publisher: Elsevier B.V , 2022
  4. Abstract:
  5. In this study, the nodal discontinuous Galerkin method is formulated in three-dimensions and applied to simulate three-dimensional non-cavitating/cavitating flows. For this aim, the three-dimensional preconditioned Navier-Stokes equations based on the artificial compressibility approach considering appropriate source terms to model cavitating phenomena are used. The spatial derivative terms in the resulting equations are discretized by utilizing the nodal discontinuous Galerkin method on tetrahedral elements and the derivative of the solution vector with respect to the artificial time is discretized by applying an explicit time integration method. An artificial viscosity method is formulated in three-dimensions and applied to properly capture the discontinuities in the cavitating flow-field. Here, different non-cavitating/cavitating flow problems including non-cavitating flow in a 3:1:1 driven cavity, non-cavitating flow between two concentric rotating spheres, cavitating flow over a sphere and cavitating flow over a wavy cylinder are solved to examine the accuracy and robustness of the proposed solution method. These flow problems are selected to properly assess the numerical method in the presence of straight and curved boundaries and for different Reynolds and cavitation numbers. From linear to cubic polynomial degrees are used in the simulations and the numerical results are compared with the available analytical and numerical results. Indications are that the present numerical method based on the NDGM formulated in three-dimensions can accurately simulate the three-dimensional non-cavitating/cavitating flows. © 2021 Elsevier B.V
  6. Keywords:
  7. Artificial viscosity method ; Nodal discontinuous galerkin method ; Three-dimensional non-cavitating/cavitating flow ; Cavitation ; Galerkin methods ; Numerical methods ; Viscosity ; Artificial viscosity ; Artificial viscosity method ; Cavitating ; Cavitating flow ; Flow problems ; Nodal discontinuous galerkin methods ; Numerical results ; Three dimensions ; Three-dimensional non-cavitating/cavitating flow ; Viscosity method ; Navier Stokes equations
  8. Source: Finite Elements in Analysis and Design ; Volume 200 , 2022 ; 0168874X (ISSN)
  9. URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0168874X21001591