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A Pressure-Correction Scheme for Rotational Navier-Stokes Equations and Its Application to Rotating Turbulent Flows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2015

Dinesh A. Shetty,
Jie Shen,
Abhilash J. Chandy and
Steven H. Frankel
Dinesh A. Shetty*
Affiliation:
School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Jie Shen*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, ChinaDepartment of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Abhilash J. Chandy*
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325, USA
Steven H. Frankel*
Affiliation:
School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
*
Email:dshetty@purdue.edu
Corresponding author.Email:shen7@purdue.edu
Email:ac76@uakron.edu
Email:frankel@ecn.purdue.edu
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Abstract

The rotational incremental pressure-correction (RIPC) scheme, described in Timmermans et al. [Int. J. Numer. Methods. Fluids., 22 (1996)] and Shen et al. [Math. Comput., 73 (2003)] for non-rotational Navier-Stokes equations, is extended to rotating incompressible flows. The method is implemented in the context of a pseudo Fourier-spectral code and applied to several rotating laminar and turbulent flows. The performance of the scheme and the computational results are compared to the so-called diagonalization method (DM) developed by Morinishi et al. [Int. J. Heat. Fluid. Flow., 22 (2001)]. The RIPC predictions are in excellent agreement with the DM predictions, while being simpler to implement and computationally more efficient. The RIPC scheme is not in anyway limited to implementation in a pseudo-spectral code or periodic boundary conditions, and can be used in complex geometries and with other suitable boundary conditions.

Keywords

52B1065D1868U0568U07Rotating turbulent flowpressure-correctionNavier-Stokes equationsFourier-spectral method

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Communications in Computational Physics , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , March 2011, pp. 740 - 755
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Copyright © Global Science Press Limited 2011

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