非结构网格在CFD中的应用.ppt

11th International Meshing Roundtable September 15-18,2002 Ithaca New York, USA Unstructured Mesh Related Issues In Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) – Based Analysis And Design Dimitri J. Mavriplis ICASE NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA 23681 USA 11th International Meshing Roundtable September 15-18, 2002 Ithaca New York, USA Overview History and current state of unstructured grid technology of CFD Influence of grid generation technology Influence of solver technology Examples of unstructured mesh CFD capabilities Areas of current research Adaptive mesh refinement Moving meshes Overlapping meshes Requirements for design methods Implications for higher-order accurate Discretizations CFD Perspective on Meshing Technology CFD initiated in structured grid context Transfinite interpolation Elliptic grid generation Hyperbolic grid generation Smooth, orthogonal structured grids Relatively simple geometries CFD Perspective on Meshing Technology Evolved to Sophisticated Multiblock and Overlapping Structured Grid Techniques for Complex Geometries CFD Perspective on Meshing Technology Unstructured meshes initially confined to FE community CFD Discretizations based on directional splitting Line relaxation (ADI) solvers Structured Multigrid solvers Sparse matrix methods not competitive Memory limitations Non-linear nature of problems Current State of Unstructured Mesh CFD Technology Method of choice for many commercial CFD vendors Fluent, StarCD, CFD++, … Advantages Complex geometries ? Adaptivity Parallelizability Enabling factors Maturing grid generation technology Better Discretizations and solvers Maturing Unstructured Grid Generation Technology (1990-2000) Isotropic tetrahedral grid generation Delaunay point insertion algorithms Surface recovery Advancing front techniques Octree methods Mature technology Numerous available commercial packages Remaining issues Grid quality Robustness Links to CAD Maturing Unstructured Grid Generation Technology (1990-2000) Aniso