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Adaptive Cartesian grid with mesh-less zones for compressible flow calculations

A. Jahangirian , M.Y. Hashemi

Department of Aerospace Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, 424 Hafez Avenue,
Tehran, Iran

Article history:
Received 1 May 2010
Received in revised form 13 August 2011
Accepted 16 August 2011
Available online 6 September 2011
Available from:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0045793011002532?via%3Dihub
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compfluid.2011.08.010

ABSTRACT:

A hybrid grid method that combines the computational efficiency of adaptive Cartesian grids with
the flexibility of mesh-less scheme is developed for calculation of compressible flows. The mesh-
less zone is created around the geometry by producing layers of nodes along normal direction
vectors. Last layer is used as virtual geometry for automatic generation of unstructured Cartesian
grid around mesh-less zone. An efficient explicit central difference scheme with artificial
dissipation terms and convergence acceleration techniques is developed for both Cartesian grid
and mesh-less zones. The method is used for computation of inviscid and viscous flows around
single and multi-element airfoils at transonic flow conditions. Results indicate good agreements
with those of available unstructured finite-volume flow solver (Uns2D) and other reference
numerical data. The new method is shown to reduce the computational cost up to 70% compared
with the fully unstructured flow solver.
 This is a review of the journal Adaptive Cartesian grid with mesh-less zones for

compressible flow calculations of A. Jahangirian and M.Y. Hashemi. The review is about what are

the points, concepts, problems and others that the authors want to share and prove.

The journal article Adaptive Cartesian grid with mesh-less zones for compressible flow

calculations is a practical and educational article which discussed a computer program or

application that develops a method in solving compressible flows in faster and efficient way. The

main purpose of the article is to design a method of solving compressible fluids using different

computer application, algorithms and equations available. This project was made to cater the

limitations of the computational fluid dynamics (CFD), which are not efficient is some cases that

has configuration with complex geometry.

The main problem of the CFDs are the mesh generation, the structured grid methods are

not efficient in such cases like the computational costs and memory requirements are higher than

the structured grid counterparts. While the Cartesian grid method can be used to be an easy

alternative to the grid generation, and it has much lower computational storage requirement.

Nonetheless, the main challenge in using the Cartesian grid method deals with arbitrary

boundaries. And for the author to deal with the challenges, he presented some ways to eliminate

the problems and for the method to be more efficient. Some of the ways to eliminate the challenges

are the cut-cell method and least-square approach. However, these methods needs further

development in automating the procedure.

The main objective of the author is to combine the advantages of the recent works about

the Cartesian grid method and the mesh-less strategy for computation of compressible flows. The

methods to achieve the objectives are generation of layer of nodes around the body while the
Cartesian grid method is used elsewhere. Because majority of the computation is solved with the

Cartesian grid method, the resulting procedure is very efficient in terms of both storage

requirements and computational cost in the computers. And since the mesh-less method is used to

obtain the solution for the solid boundary points the developed method will be easily used for

complex geometries without the need of generation body-fitted mesh.

The author cites theories, models and other approaches in this method such as Mesh-less

zone point creation, Adaptive Cartesian grid generation, and Numerical methods. There are

strengths and weaknesses presented in the article, such as the advantages and disadvantages of

CFD compared to the present work. The author did recommend the future work to be focused on

extension of the method to the unsteady moving boundary applications.

In conclusion, the article is not mid-level type of read as for the methods and equations

used are too technical and advanced but the purpose is simple and understandable. The information

given in this article is very important for Chemical Engineering students because this type of

development in the field is a great addition to the many methods that can give results that efficient

not only in data gathered but also the time and cost invested in the method. I totally agree with the

major points and premises that the author presented, he tackled first the limitations of the present

works and then presented the solutions to these limitations and developed a new method. The one

idea the impressed me the most is that this method developed reduced the computation time up to

70% compared to the conventional one. There is no major concern for this article because the

authors presented it well and it is validated through some fixed examples which gave them a

validation that these method can accumulate only 1% maximum error.

 Overall, the article is a very informative article that presented the development of a new

method in solving compressible fluid flows, specifically the viscous and inviscid flows. The hybrid

adaptive Cartesian grid and mesh-less zones was developed by the authors for calculation of

compressible fluid flows. This developed method was used for computations of viscous and

inviscid flows to validate the accuracy and efficiency of the procedure. The results gathered by the

authors showed good agreements with reliable numerical data. And this new method developed by

the authors can reduce the computational cost in viscous flow calculations compared to the fully

unstructured flow solver.