Residual-based artificial viscosity for simulation of turbulent compressible flow using adaptive finite element methods

• In this paper, we present a finite element method with a residual-based artificial viscosity for simulation of turbulent compressible flow, with adaptive mesh refinement based on a posteriori error estimation with sensitivity information from an associated dual problem. The artificial viscosity acts as a numerical stabilization, as shock capturing, and as turbulence capturing for large eddy simulation of turbulent flow. The adaptive method resolves parts of the flow indicated by the a posteriori error estimates but leaves shocks and turbulence under-resolved in a large eddy simulation. The method is tested for examples in 2D and 3D and is validated against experimental data.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences (hsv//eng)

Keyword

compressible turbulent flow

large eddy simulation

adaptive finite element method

numerical stabilization

transonic flow

supersonic flow

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