Kinetic meshless method for compressible flows

Praveen, C and Deshpande, SM (2007) Kinetic meshless method for compressible flows. In: International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 55 (11). pp. 1059-1089.

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Abstract

We present a grid-free or meshless approximation called the kinetic meshless method (KMM), for the numerical solution of hyperbolic conservation laws that can be obtained by taking moments of a Boltzmanntype transport equation. The meshless formulation requires the domain discretization to have very little topological information; a distribution of points in the domain together with local connectivity information is sufficient. For each node, the connectivity consists of a set of nearby nodes which are used to evaluate the spatial derivatives appearing in the conservation law. The derivatives are obtained using a modified form of the least-squares approximation. The method is applied to the Euler equations for inviscid flow and results are presented for some 2-D problems. The ability of the new scheme to accurately compute inviscid flows is clearly demonstrated, including good shock capturing ability. Comparisons with other grid-free methods are made showing some advantages of the current approach.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids
Publisher:	Wiley & Sons
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Wiley & Sons.
Keywords:	meshless method;kinetic scheme;least squares;Euler equations
Department/Centre:	Division of Mechanical Sciences > Aerospace Engineering(Formerly Aeronautical Engineering)
Date Deposited:	09 Jun 2008
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:45
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/14238

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