Damped, direction-dependent multigrid for hypersonic flow computations:

Abstract: "A nonlinear multigrid technique with improved robustness is developed for the solution of the steady Euler equations. The system of nonlinear equations is discretized by an upwind finite volume method. Collective symmetric point Gauss-Seidel relaxation is applied as the standard smoo...

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Main Authors: Koren, Barry (Author), Hemker, Pieter W. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam 1989
Series:Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica <Amsterdam> / Afdeling Numerieke Wiskunde: Report NM 1989,22
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Summary:Abstract: "A nonlinear multigrid technique with improved robustness is developed for the solution of the steady Euler equations. The system of nonlinear equations is discretized by an upwind finite volume method. Collective symmetric point Gauss-Seidel relaxation is applied as the standard smoothing technique. In case of failure of the point relaxation, a switch is made to a local evolution technique. The novel robustness improvements to the nonlinear multigrid method are a local damping of the restricted defect, and a global upwind prolongation of the correction. The defect damping is derived from a two-grid convergence analysis
The upwind prolongation makes efficient use of the P-variant of Osher's approximate Riemann solver. Satisfactory convergence results are shown for the computation of a hypersonic launch and reentry flow around a blunt forebody with canopy. For the test cases considered, it appears that the improved multigrid method performs significantly better than a standard nonlinear multigrid method.
Physical Description:16 S.

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