Committee Chair

Karman Jr., Steve

Committee Member

Hyams, Daniel; Betro, Vincent

Department

Dept. of Computational Engineering

College

College of Engineering and Computer Science

Publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Place of Publication

Chattanooga (Tenn.)

Abstract

An adaptive hybrid mesh generation method is described to automatically provide spatial discretizations suitable for computational fluid dynamics or other 2D solver applications. This method employs a hierarchical grid generation technique to create a background mesh, an extrusion-type method for inserting boundary layers, and an unstructured triangulation to stitch between the boundary layers and background mesh. This method provides appropriate mesh resolution based on geometry segments from a file, and has the capability of adapting the background mesh based on a spacing field generated from solution data or some other arbitrary source. By combining multiple approaches to the grid generation process, this method seeks to benefit from the strengths of each, while avoiding the weaknesses of each. Possible future work to increase the robustness of the method is also discussed.

Degree

M. S.; A thesis submitted to the faculty of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Science.

Date

8-2011

Subject

Computational fluid dynamics; Numerical grid generation (Numerical analysis)

Keyword

2D solver applications; CFD simulations; Mesh generation

Discipline

Computational Engineering

Document Type

Masters theses

DCMI Type

Text

Extent

xvi, 98 leaves

Language

English

Rights

https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en

License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

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