Committee Chair

Karman Jr., Steve

Committee Member

Hyams, Daniel; Burdyshaw, Chad

Department

Dept. of Computational Engineering

College

College of Engineering and Computer Science

Publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Place of Publication

Chattanooga (Tenn.)

Abstract

Meshes are used to discretize space for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. Mesh adaptation through refinement and smoothing can improve the accuracy of the CFD solution. In order to perform adaptive refinement or smoothing a spacing field is needed to define the desired edge sized in mesh. The objectives of this research are to generate spacing fields from existing CFD solutions and optimize this spacing information for efficient use by programs to perform adaptive refinement or smoothing. All work was done on 2D meshes with the intention of gaining knowledge and experience for later application to 3D meshes. The program written to generate spacing fields is presented. Next, a library of functions created to store and retrieve spacing information is presented. Finally, the shortcomings of the developed software as well as ideas for future research are 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

CFD simulations; Mesh generation

Discipline

Computational Engineering

Document Type

Masters theses

DCMI Type

Text

Extent

x, 79 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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