A Computational Model for Suspended Large Rigid Bodies in 3D Unsteady Viscous Flows

✍ Scribed by Feng Xiao

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 547 KB
• Volume: 155
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9991
• DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1999.6340

✦ Synopsis

A 3D numerical model for computing large rigid objects suspended in fluid flow has been developed. Rather than calculating the surface pressure upon the solid body, we evaluate the net force and torque based on a volume force formulation. The total effective force is obtained by summing up the forces at the Eulerian grids occupied by the rigid body. The effects of the moving bodies are coupled to the fluid flow by imposing the velocity field of the bodies to the fluid. A Poisson equation is used to compute the pressure over the whole domain. The objects are identified by color functions and calculated by the PPM scheme and a tangent function transformation which scales the transition region of the computed interface to a compact thickness. The model is then implemented on a parallel computer of distributed memory and validated with Stokes and low Reynolds number flows.