A new method for numerical simulation of two trains passing by each other at the same speed

A new method is proposed to numerically simulate problems of trains passing by each other at the same speed, and is implemented in UDF language of commercial software Fluent. Because only a half of the computational domain is required and the dynamic mesh technique is avoided, the computational efficiency is greatly improved. A two-dimensional test case is used for validation, which shows that the flow field and the pressure wave during the train-passing events can be correctly calculated by this new method. This method can be easily extended to three-dimensional simulations, to deal with practical problems.