A swept-intersection-based remapping method in a ReALE framework

• Published in: International journal for numerical methods in fluids 2013-06, Vol.72 (6), p.697-708
• Main Authors: Harribey, Thibault, Breil, Jérôme, Maire, Pierre-Henri, Shashkov, Mikhail
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: cell-centered scheme; Computational fluid dynamics; Fluid flow; Hydrodynamics; Lagrangian hydrodynamics; Mathematical models; Optimization; Phase transformations; polygonal mesh; ReALE; Strategy; Voronoi mesh; Vorticity
• ISSN: 0271-2091; 1097-0363
• DOI: 10.1002/fld.3763

SUMMARY A complete reconnection‐based arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian (ReALE) strategy devoted to the computation of hydrodynamic applications for compressible fluid flows is presented here. In ReALE, we replace the rezoning phase of classical ALE method by a rezoning where we allow the connectivity between cells of the mesh to change. This leads to a polygonal mesh that recovers the Lagrangian features in order to follow more efficiently the flow. Those reconnections allow to deal with complex geometries and high vorticity problems contrary to ALE method. For optimizing the remapping phase, we have modified the idea of swept‐integration‐based. The new method is called swept‐intersection‐based remapping method. We demonstrate that our method can be applied to several numerical examples representative of hydrodynamic experiments.Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. In this work, we replace the rezoning phase of classical ALE method by a rezoning where we allow the connectivity between cells of the mesh to change. This leads to a polygonal mesh that recovers the Lagrangian features in order to follow more efficiently the flow. Those reconnections allow to deal with complex geometries and high vorticity problems contrary to the ALE method. For optimizing the remapping phase, we have modified the idea of swept‐integration‐based method. The new method used here is called swept‐intersection‐based remapping method.