Higher-order EB method for the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations.

ORAL

Abstract

We present a higher-order embedded boundary (EB) method to solve partial  differential equations in the presence of complex geometries for structured meshes. 

We focus on the development and analysis of a new EB method that creates a water-tight grid via the divergence theorem, and uses cell/faces averages to achieve high order accuracy and stability for finite volume operators in the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. 

The method uses a novel weighted least squares approach to find the appropriate stencil coefficients for several operators to ensure conservation, accuracy, and stability in the presence of smooth and non-smooth geometries. We present results that verify the accuracy of the method, and use an eigenvalue analysis to demonstrate linear operator stability even with arbitrarily-small cut cells. Finally, we show the difference in accuracy between low-order and high-order results for simple and complex flow fields.

*This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Advanced Scientific Computing Research, under contract number DE-AC02-05CH11231.

Presenters

  • Oscar Antepara

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Authors

  • Oscar Antepara

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Hans Johansen

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Nate Overton-Katz

    • Colorado State University
  • Stephen Guzik

    • Colorado State University
  • Daniel T Graves

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Phillip Colella

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory