Download or read book A Simplexcut-cell Adaptive Method for High-order Discretizations of the Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations written by Krzysztof J. Fidkowski and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Cont.) The compressible Navier-Stokes equations in both two and three dimensions are discretized using the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element method. An anisotropic h-adaptation technique is presented for high-order (p> 1) discretizations, driven by an output-error estimate obtained from the solution of an adjoint problem. In two and three dimensions, algorithms are presented for intersecting the geometry with the background mesh and for constructing the resulting cut cells. In addition, a quadrature technique is proposed for accurately integrating high-order functions on arbitrarily-shaped cut cells and cut faces. Accuracy on cut-cell meshes is demonstrated by comparing solutions to those on standard, boundary-conforming meshes. In two dimensions, robustness of the cut-cell, adaptive technique is successfully tested for highly-anisotropic boundary-layer meshes representative of practical high-Re simulations. In three dimensions, robustness of cut cells is demonstrated for various representative curved geometries. Adaptation results show that for all test cases considered, p = 2 and p = 3 discretizations meet desired error tolerances using fewer degrees of freedom than p = 1.