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- Laurén, Fredrik, 1990-
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Summation-by-parts formulations for flow problems
- 2022
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Many problems in engineering and physics can be described by partial differential equations (PDEs). Augmented with proper initial and boundary conditions, the PDE forms an initial-boundary value problem (IBVP). An IBVP is said to be well-posed if a unique solution bounded by the given data exists. The behavior of the solution as well as the well-posedness of the IBVP are heavily influenced by the form and position of the boundary conditions. The solution, if it exists, to an IBVP cannot in general be obtained in closed form. Instead, one can compute an approximation using numerical methods. Summation-by-parts (SBP) operators together with the simultaneous approximation term (SAT) technique can be used to form stable numerical methods that generate accurate approximations. All discretizations in this thesis are based on the SBP-SAT framework.The first part of the thesis concentrates on IBVPs describing fluid motion. Different sets of boundary conditions are investigated in terms of energy-boundedness and spectral properties. Wall models are also studied and used to aid coarse-grid simulations in an energy stable manner.In the second part of the thesis, special discretization operators are derived. First, single-block SBP operators are combined with interpolation operators. The result is a single SBP operators on a multi-block grid that encapsulates both the metric terms and the interface treatments. Second, new SBP operators are developed for an application in high-energy physics. The new operators preserves the unit-trace, which is important since it enables a probability interpretation of the density matrix.
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