| Abstract: | High-order discretization techniques offer the potential to significantly reduce
the computational costs necessary to obtain accurate predictions when compared
to lower-order methods. However, efficient and universally-applicable high-order
discretizations remain somewhat illusive, especially for more arbitrary unstructured
meshes and for incompressible/low-speed flows. A novel, high-order, central essentially
non-oscillatory (CENO), cell-centered, finite-volume scheme is proposed for
the solution of the conservation equations of viscous, incompressible flows on three-dimensional
unstructured meshes. Similar to finite element methods, coordinate transformations
are used to maintain the scheme's order of accuracy even when dealing
with arbitrarily-shaped cells having non-planar faces. The proposed scheme is applied
to the pseudo-compressibility formulation of the steady and unsteady Navier-Stokes
equations and the resulting discretized equations are solved with a parallel implicit
Newton-Krylov algorithm. For unsteady flows, a dual-time stepping approach
is adopted and the resulting temporal derivatives are discretized using the family of
high-order backward difference formulas (BDF). The proposed finite-volume scheme
for fully unstructured mesh is demonstrated to provide both fast and accurate solutions
for steady and unsteady viscous flows. |
