Direct solution method of efficient large-scale parallel computation for 3D turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection

Zhang, Yi-Zhao; Bao, Yun

doi:10.7498/aps.64.154702

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Perturbation analysis of baroclinic torque in low-Mach-number flows

2021

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In this paper, we propose a series expansion of the baroclinic torque in low-Mach-number flows, so that the accuracy and universality of any buoyancy term could be examined analytically, and new types of buoyancy terms could be constructed and validated. We first demonstrate that the purpose of introducing a buoyancy term is to approximate the baroclinic torque, and straightforwardly the error of any buoyancy term could be defined with the deviation of its curl from the corresponding baroclinic torque. Then a regular perturbation method is introduced for the elliptic equation of the hydrodynamic pressure in low-Mach-number flows, resulting in a sequence of Poisson equations, whose solutions lead to the series representation of the baroclinic torque and the new types of buoyancy terms. It is found that the frame invariance of the momentum equation is maintained with one of the new types of buoyancy terms. With the error definition of buoyancy terms and the series representation of the baroclinic torque, the validity and accuracy of previous and new buoyancy terms are examined. Finally, numerical simulations confirm that, with a decreasing density variation or an increasing order of our new buoyancy term, the simplified equations can converge to the original low-Mach-number equations.

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Perturbation analysis of baroclinic torque in low-Mach-number flows

2021

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A CFD-Aided Galerkin Method for Global Linear Instability Analysis

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2021

CiCP

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Global linear instability analysis is a powerful tool for the complex flow diagnosis. However, the methods used in the past would generally suffer from some disadvantages, either the excessive computational resources for the low-order methods or the tedious mathematical derivations for the high-order methods. The present work proposed a CFD-aided Galerkin methodology which combines the merits from both the low-order and high-order methods, where the expansion on proper basis functions is preserved to ensure a small matrix size, while the differentials, incompressibility constraints and boundary conditions are realized by applying the low-order linearized Navier-Stokes equation solvers on the basis functions on a fine grid. Several test cases have shown that the new method can get satisfactory results for onedimensional, two-dimensional and three-dimensional flow problems and also for the problems with complex geometries and boundary conditions.

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