High order accurate and low dissipation method for unsteady compressible viscous flow computation on helicopter rotor in forward flight

Authors:
Li Xu;Peifen Weng
Affiliations:
Department of Mathematics, Shanghai University of Electric Power, Shanghai, PR China and Department of Mathematics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, PR China;Shanghai Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Shanghai University, Shanghai, PR China
Venue:
Journal of Computational Physics
Year:
2014

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Abstract

An improved fifth-order weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO-Z) scheme combined with the moving overset grid technique has been developed to compute unsteady compressible viscous flows on the helicopter rotor in forward flight. In order to enforce periodic rotation and pitching of the rotor and relative motion between rotor blades, the moving overset grid technique is extended, where a special judgement standard is presented near the odd surface of the blade grid during search donor cells by using the Inverse Map method. The WENO-Z scheme is adopted for reconstructing left and right state values with the Roe Riemann solver updating the inviscid fluxes and compared with the monotone upwind scheme for scalar conservation laws (MUSCL) and the classical WENO scheme. Since the WENO schemes require a six point stencil to build the fifth-order flux, the method of three layers of fringes for hole boundaries and artificial external boundaries is proposed to carry out flow information exchange between chimera grids. The time advance on the unsteady solution is performed by the full implicit dual time stepping method with Newton type LU-SGS subiteration, where the solutions of pseudo steady computation are as the initial fields of the unsteady flow computation. Numerical results on non-variable pitch rotor and periodic variable pitch rotor in forward flight reveal that the approach can effectively capture vortex wake with low dissipation and reach periodic solutions very soon.