ISSN:
0271-2091
Keywords:
adaptive mesh refinement
;
error estimation
;
Engineering
;
Numerical Methods and Modeling
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
Notes:
A methodology for local solution-adaptive mesh refinement in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) using cell-level and global kinetic energy balances is formulated and tested. Results are presented for two two-dimensional steady incompressible laminar benchmark problems: a lid-driven cavity (Reynolds number Re=1000) and a backward-facing step (Re=400). It is demonstrated that local kinetic energy imbalance correlates with local solution accuracy, that normalized global imbalance is an appropriate criterion for halting mesh refinement and that a specified level of accuracy is realized at lower computational effort using local refinement compared with a uniform finer mesh. © 1997 by John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.
Additional Material:
8 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
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