A Pressure-Correction Scheme for Rotational Navier-Stokes Equations and Its Application to Rotating Turbulent Flows

A Pressure-Correction Scheme for Rotational Navier-Stokes Equations and Its Application to Rotating Turbulent Flows

Year:    2011

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 9 (2011), Iss. 3 : pp. 740–755

Abstract

The rotational incremental pressure-correction (RIPC) scheme, described in Timmermans et al. [Int. J. Numer. Methods. Fluids., 22 (1996)] and Shen et al. [Math. Comput., 73 (2003)] for non-rotational Navier-Stokes equations, is extended to rotating incompressible flows. The method is implemented in the context of a pseudo Fourier-spectral code and applied to several rotating laminar and turbulent flows. The performance of the scheme and the computational results are compared to the so-called diagonalization method (DM) developed by Morinishi et al. [Int. J. Heat. Fluid. Flow., 22 (2001)]. The RIPC predictions are in excellent agreement with the DM predictions, while being simpler to implement and computationally more efficient. The RIPC scheme is not in anyway limited to implementation in a pseudo-spectral code or periodic boundary conditions, and can be used in complex geometries and with other suitable boundary conditions.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.301109.040310s

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 9 (2011), Iss. 3 : pp. 740–755

Published online:    2011-01

AMS Subject Headings:    Global Science Press

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    16

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