Evaluation of an energy relaxation method for the simulation of unsteady, viscous, real gas flows
✍ Scribed by Emmanuel Bongiovanni; Alexandre Ern; Nathalie Glinsky-Olivier
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 443 KB
- Volume
- 45
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0271-2091
- DOI
- 10.1002/fld.728
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
This study investigates a new energy relaxation method designed to capture the dynamics of unsteady, viscous, real gas flows governed by the compressible Navier–Stokes equations. We focus on real gas models accounting for inelastic molecular collisions and yielding temperature‐dependent heat capacities. The relaxed Navier–Stokes equations are discretized using a mixed finite volume/finite element method and a high‐order time integration scheme. The accuracy of the energy relaxation method is investigated on three test problems of increasing complexity: the advection of a periodic set of vortices, the interaction of a temperature spot with a weak shock, and finally, the interaction of a reflected shock with its trailing boundary layer in a shock tube. In all cases, the method is validated against benchmark solutions and the numerical errors resulting from both discretization and energy relaxation are assessed independently. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.