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Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian approximation with remeshing for Navier–Stokes equations
Author(s) -
Murea C. M.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
international journal for numerical methods in biomedical engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.741
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 2040-7947
pISSN - 2040-7939
DOI - 10.1002/cnm.1223
Subject(s) - polygon mesh , eulerian path , domain (mathematical analysis) , lagrangian , euler equations , euler's formula , mathematics , navier–stokes equations , euler–lagrange equation , mesh generation , mathematical optimization , computer science , mathematical analysis , algorithm , finite element method , geometry , physics , mechanics , compressibility , thermodynamics
An algorithm that allows remeshing in the arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (ALE) framework is presented. At every time step, we could triangulate the domain using either uniform size meshes or adapted meshes. We analyze the conditions when two time‐advancing algorithms based on the backward Euler scheme provide identical approximations. Numerical results are presented for Navier–Stokes equations on moving domain. For three academic tests presented in this paper, the uniform size mesh technique provides more accurate results than the classical ALE method, in particular when the domain is expanding particularly fast. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.