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A parallel methodology of adaptive Cartesian grid for compressible flow simulations
Xinyu Qi1, Yuchen Yang1, Linlin Tian1
1College of Aerospace Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, 210016 China.
Abstract:
The combination of Cartesian grid and the adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) technology is an effective way to handle complex geometry and solve complex flow problems. Some high-efficiency Cartesian-based AMR libraries have been developed to handle dynamic changes of the grid in parallel but still can not meet the unique requirements of simulating flow around objects. In this paper, we propose an efficient Cartesian grid generation method and an information transmission approach for the wall boundary to parallelize the implementation of ghost-cell method (GCM). Also, the multi-valued ghost-cell method to handle multi-value points is improved to adapt to the parallel framework. Combining the mentioned methodologies with the open-source library p4est, an automatic and efficient simulation of compressible flow is achieved. The overall performance of the methodology is tested through a wide range of inviscid/viscous flow cases. The results indicate that the capability and parallel scalability of the present numerical methodology for solving multiple types of flows, involving shock and vortices, multi-body flow and unsteady flows are agreeable as compared with related reference data.
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