کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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4642829 | 1341358 | 2007 | 17 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |

This paper develops an efficient particle tracking algorithm to be used in fluid simulations approximated by a high-order multidomain discretization of the Navier–Stokes equations. We discuss how to locate a particle's host subdomain, how to interpolate the flow field to its location, and how to integrate its motion in time. A search algorithm for the nearest subdomain and quadrature point, tuned to a typical quadrilateral isoparametric spectral subdomain, takes advantage of the inverse of the linear blending equation. We show that to compute particle-laden flows, a sixth-order Lagrangian polynomial that uses points solely within a subdomain is sufficiently accurate to interpolate the carrier phase variables to the particle position. Time integration of particles with a lower-order Adams–Bashforth scheme, rather than the fourth-order Runge–Kutta scheme often used for the integration of the carrier phase, increases computational efficiency while maintaining engineering accuracy. We verify the tracking algorithm with numerical tests on a steady channel flow and an unsteady backward-facing step flow.
Journal: Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics - Volume 206, Issue 1, 1 September 2007, Pages 392–408