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Title: Numerical Experiments Using a Convective Flux Limiter on a Turbulent Single-Mode Rayleigh-Taylor Instability

Abstract

Direct numerical simulation and large eddy simulations are powerful tools for studying turbulent flows. Unfortunately, they are computationally demanding in terms of run times, storage, and accuracy of the numerical method used. In particular, high order methods promise high accuracy on a given grid, but they often fail to deliver the expected accuracy due to dispersive truncation errors that appear as unphysical oscillations in the numerical solutions. This report describes a nonlinear flux limiter that has been applied to the second-order tensor viscosity method and markedly reduces the dispersive truncation errors. A Rayleigh-Taylor instability is simulated to show how well the flux limiter works.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Defense Programs (DP) (US)
OSTI Identifier:
793972
Report Number(s):
UCRL-ID-139735
TRN: US200302%%690
DOE Contract Number:  
W-7405-Eng-48
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 10 Jul 2000
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; ACCURACY; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; OSCILLATIONS; RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR INSTABILITY; SIMULATION; STORAGE; TURBULENT FLOW; VISCOSITY

Citation Formats

Cloutman, L D. Numerical Experiments Using a Convective Flux Limiter on a Turbulent Single-Mode Rayleigh-Taylor Instability. United States: N. p., 2000. Web. doi:10.2172/793972.
Cloutman, L D. Numerical Experiments Using a Convective Flux Limiter on a Turbulent Single-Mode Rayleigh-Taylor Instability. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/793972
Cloutman, L D. 2000. "Numerical Experiments Using a Convective Flux Limiter on a Turbulent Single-Mode Rayleigh-Taylor Instability". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/793972. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/793972.
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abstractNote = {Direct numerical simulation and large eddy simulations are powerful tools for studying turbulent flows. Unfortunately, they are computationally demanding in terms of run times, storage, and accuracy of the numerical method used. In particular, high order methods promise high accuracy on a given grid, but they often fail to deliver the expected accuracy due to dispersive truncation errors that appear as unphysical oscillations in the numerical solutions. This report describes a nonlinear flux limiter that has been applied to the second-order tensor viscosity method and markedly reduces the dispersive truncation errors. A Rayleigh-Taylor instability is simulated to show how well the flux limiter works.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jul 10 00:00:00 EDT 2000},
month = {Mon Jul 10 00:00:00 EDT 2000}
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