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Title: Multidomain spectral solution of compressible viscous flows

Journal Article · · Journal of Computational Physics
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  1. Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States)

We develop a nonoverlapping mutidomain spectral collocation method to solve compressible viscous flows. At the interfaces, the advection terms are treated with a characteristic correction method. The diffusion terms are treated with a penalty method. Spectral accuracy is demonstrated on linear model problems in one and two space dimensions. The method is applied to a subsonic and supersonic flow over a flat plate. The results are compared to solutions of the boundary-layer equations which show that two digit accuracy in the adiabatic plate temperature is obtained with 16 points in the boundary layer for a freestream Mach number of two. A second application is to a transonic flow in a two-dimensional converging-diverging nozzle, where the computed results are compared to experimental data.

OSTI ID:
105720
Journal Information:
Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 115, Issue 1; Other Information: PBD: Nov 1994
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English