Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-10-2016
Abstract
A new projection method based on radial basis functions (RBFs) is presented for discretizing the incompressible unsteady Stokes equations in irregular geometries. The novelty of the method comes from the application of a new technique for computing the Leray-Helmholtz projection of a vector field using generalized interpolation with divergence-free and curl-free RBFs. Unlike traditional projection methods, this new method enables matching both tangential and normal components of divergence-free vector fields on the domain boundary. This allows incompressibility of the velocity field to be enforced without any time-splitting or pressure boundary conditions. Spatial derivatives are approximated using collocation with global RBFs so that the method only requires samples of the field at (possibly scattered) nodes over the domain. Numerical results are presented demonstrating high-order convergence in both space (between 5th and 6th order) and time (up to 4th order) for some model problems in two dimensional irregular geometries.
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This is an author-produced, peer-reviewed version of this article. © 2016, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International. Details regarding the use of this work can be found at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. The final, definitive version of this document can be found online at Computers & Fluids, doi: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2016.01.009
Publication Information
Fuselier, Edward J.; Shankar, Varun; and Wright, Grady B. (2016). "A High-Order Radial Basis Function (RBF) Leray Projection Method for the Solution of the Incompressible Unsteady Stokes Equations". Computers & Fluids, 128, 41-52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compfluid.2016.01.009