Author
Xu, Zelu
Other Contributors
Sahni, Onkar, OS; Hicken, Jason; Henshaw, William; Shephard, Mark;
Date Issued
2021-08
Subject
Mechanical engineering
Degree
PhD;
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Abstract
It is well known that the Galerkin method yields a solution with numerical/spurious oscillations in advection-dominated transport problems.Specifically when the cell Peclet or Reynolds number is high with an under resolution of the solution, e.g., in case of an under-resolved boundary layer solution.
A popular technique to resolve this issue is to use a stabilization term, in particular one employing the variational multiscale (VMS) and related stabilized methods.
The focus of this work is the formulation and application of a dynamic high-order VMS approach on unstructured
meshes for stationary and transient transport problems governed by partial differential equations. The current dynamic procedure takes in the given structure/form
of the stabilization parameter with unknown coefficients and computes
them dynamically in a local fashion resulting in a dynamic VMS-based
finite element method. A variational Germano identity (VGI) based local procedure suitable for unstructured meshes and high orders is developed to perform the dynamic computation of the coefficients in the stabilization parameter in a local fashion.The overall dynamic procedure based on the local VGI (LVGI) relies on a
sequence of locally coarsened spaces, i.e., secondary coarse-scale spaces, that are constructed from the
primary coarse-scale space.
To make the current procedure practical, any
locally coarser solution is reconstructed from the primary coarse-scale
solution, which is done over local patches.
Further, averaging steps are employed to make the local dynamic procedure robust. A wide range of stationary and transient problems are considered to demonstrate the suitability of the current high-order LVGI-based dynamic
procedure together with different subscale models. Both uniform and
nonuniform meshes are employed. Different \timestep sizes are used to
evaluate the behavior of different subscale models and stabilization
parameters with small and large \timestep sizes. Orders up to $p=7$ are
considered. In summary, the current dynamic high-order VMS method is
shown to be effective and provide more accurate results (especially on a
coarse discretization) for both stationary and transient problems.;
Description
August2021; School of Engineering
Department
Dept. of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering;
Publisher
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
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