A multiresolution remeshed Vortex-In-Cell algorithm using patches

  • Authors:
  • Johannes TophøJ Rasmussen;Georges-Henri Cottet;Jens Honoré Walther

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Building 403, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark;Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann, Université Joseph Fourier, 51 rue des Mathématiques, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France;Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Building 403, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark and Computational Science and Engineering Laboratory, ETH Zürich, Universit&# ...

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational Physics
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We present a novel multiresolution Vortex-In-Cell algorithm using patches of varying resolution. The Poisson equation relating the fluid vorticity and velocity is solved using Fast Fourier Transforms subject to free space boundary conditions. Solid boundaries are implemented using the semi-implicit formulation of Brinkman penalization and we show that the penalization can be carried out as a simple interpolation. We validate the implementation against the analytic solution to the Perlman test case and by free-space simulations of the onset flow around fixed and rotating circular cylinders and bluff body flows around bridge sections.