Committee Chair

Karman, Jr., Steve

Committee Member

Hyams, Daniel; Sutton, William

Department

Dept. of Computational Engineering

College

College of Engineering and Computer Science

Publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Place of Publication

Chattanooga (Tenn.)

Abstract

A new mesh adaptation method for unstructured grids is presented. The technique uses virtual control volumes that are iteratively manipulated to conform the mesh to match either a Riemannianmetric tensor field or an equal distribution of scalar weights. Forcing functions similar to those used for structured grids are employed such that the resulting meshes can be compared with those generated using the new adaptation method. Several test cases using analytic functions to drive the mesh adaptation are also presented and compared with the new method. Mesh adaptation results driven by computed flow field information are also compared to those adapted using analytical functions as well as those adapted using the virtual control volume approach. Strengths and weaknesses of the various adaptation methods are investigated, and suggestions for further 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

Mesh adaptation

Discipline

Computational Engineering

Document Type

Masters theses

DCMI Type

Text

Extent

xiii, 64 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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