The Immersed Interface Method for Non-Smooth Rigid Objects in Incompressible Viscous Flows

The Immersed Interface Method for Non-Smooth Rigid Objects in Incompressible Viscous Flows

Year:    2021

Author:    Yang Liu, Sheng Xu

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 29 (2021), Iss. 2 : pp. 510–533

Abstract

In the immersed interface method, an object in a flow is formulated as a singular force, and jump conditions caused by the singular force are incorporated into numerical schemes to compute the flow. Previous development of the method considered only smooth objects. We here extend the method to handle non-smooth rigid objects with sharp corners in 2D incompressible viscous flows. We represent the boundary of an object as a polygonal curve moving through a fixed Cartesian grid. We compute necessary jump conditions to achieve boundary condition capturing on the object. We incorporate the jump conditions into finite difference schemes to solve the flow on the Cartesian grid. The accuracy, efficiency and robustness of our method are tested using canonical flow problems. The results demonstrate that the method has second-order accuracy for the velocity and first-order accuracy for the pressure in the infinity norm, and is extremely efficient and robust to simulate flows around non-smooth complex objects.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.OA-2020-0023

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 29 (2021), Iss. 2 : pp. 510–533

Published online:    2021-01

AMS Subject Headings:    Global Science Press

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    24

Keywords:    The immersed interface method boundary condition capturing non-smooth complex rigid objects jump conditions.

Author Details

Yang Liu

Sheng Xu