Solution Reconstruction on Unstructured Tetrahedral Meshes Using P<sup>1</sup> -Conservative Interpolation

Solution Reconstruction on Unstructured Tetrahedral Meshes Using P<sup>1</sup> -Conservative Interpolation

Year:    2016

Author:    Biao Peng, Chunhua Zhou, Junqiang Ai

Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Vol. 8 (2016), Iss. 5 : pp. 847–870

Abstract

This paper extends an algorithm of P1-conservative interpolation on triangular meshes to tetrahedral meshes and thus constructs an approach of solution reconstruction for three-dimensional problems. The conservation property is achieved by local mesh intersection and the mass of a tetrahedron of the current mesh is calculated by the integral on its intersection with the background mesh. For each current tetrahedron, the overlapped background tetrahedrons are detected efficiently. A mesh intersection algorithm is proposed to construct the intersection of a current tetrahedron with the overlapped background tetrahedron and mesh the intersection region by tetrahedrons. A localization algorithm is employed to search the host units in background mesh for each vertex of the current mesh. In order to enforce the maximum principle and avoid the loss of monotonicity, correction of nodal interpolated solution on tetrahedral meshes is given. The performance of the present solution reconstruction method is verified by numerical experiments on several analytic functions and the solution of the flow around a sphere.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/aamm.2015.m1087

Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Vol. 8 (2016), Iss. 5 : pp. 847–870

Published online:    2016-01

AMS Subject Headings:    Global Science Press

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    24

Keywords:    Solution reconstruction solution transfer conservative interpolation tetrahedral mesh solution interpolation mesh intersection.

Author Details

Biao Peng

Chunhua Zhou

Junqiang Ai