Improved algorithm yields faster numerical solutions of Navier-Stokes equations of steady or unsteady three-dimensional flow of incompressible fluid. In artificial-compressibility method, unsteady flow treated as incompressible in advancing from one time step to next, but at each time step (or in steady state), fluid treated as having variable compressibility enabling propagation of flow field, and subiterations performed in increments of pseudotime until effects of compressibility subside. Directly couples pressure and velocity fields at same time step and converts elliptic incompressible Navier-Stokes equations to hyperbolic form more amenable to numerical integration.
Faster Algorithm For Computation Of Incompressible Flow
NASA Tech Briefs ; 15 , 2
1991-02-01
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