An Improved Ghost-cell Immersed Boundary Method for Compressible Inviscid Flow Simulations
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Chi, Cheng Final Thesis
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ThesisAuthors
Chi, Cheng
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Im, Hong G.
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Samtaney, Ravi
Deiterding, Ralf
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Mechanical EngineeringKAUST Department
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) DivisionDate
2015-05Embargo End Date
2016-05-20Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/554401
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At the time of archiving, the student author of this thesis opted to temporarily restrict access to it. The full text of this thesis became available to the public after the expiration of the embargo on 2016-05-20.Abstract
This study presents an improved ghost-cell immersed boundary approach to represent a solid body in compressible flow simulations. In contrast to the commonly used approaches, in the present work ghost cells are mirrored through the boundary described using a level-set method to farther image points, incorporating a higher-order extra/interpolation scheme for the ghost cell values. In addition, a shock sensor is in- troduced to deal with image points near the discontinuities in the flow field. Adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) is used to improve the representation of the geometry efficiently. The improved ghost-cell method is validated against five test cases: (a) double Mach reflections on a ramp, (b) supersonic flows in a wind tunnel with a forward- facing step, (c) supersonic flows over a circular cylinder, (d) smooth Prandtl-Meyer expansion flows, and (e) steady shock-induced combustion over a wedge. It is demonstrated that the improved ghost-cell method can reach the accuracy of second order in L1 norm and higher than first order in L∞ norm. Direct comparisons against the cut-cell method demonstrate that the improved ghost-cell method is almost equally accurate with better efficiency for boundary representation in high-fidelity compressible flow simulations. Implementation of the improved ghost-cell method in reacting Euler flows further validates its general applicability for compressible flow simulations.Citation
Chi, C. (2015). An Improved Ghost-cell Immersed Boundary Method for Compressible Inviscid Flow Simulations. KAUST Research Repository. https://doi.org/10.25781/KAUST-LMKSTae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.25781/KAUST-LMKST