Research Article

Boundary layer mesh generation for viscous flow simulations

  1. Rao V. Garimella*,
  2. Mark S. Shephard

Article first published online: 18 JUL 2000

DOI: 10.1002/1097-0207(20000910/20)49:1/2<193::AID-NME929>3.0.CO;2-R

Issue

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Special Issue: Unstructured Mesh Generation

Volume 49, Issue 1-2, pages 193–218, 10 - 20 September 2000

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Garimella, R. V. and Shephard, M. S. (2000), Boundary layer mesh generation for viscous flow simulations. Int. J. Numer. Meth. Engng., 49: 193–218. doi: 10.1002/1097-0207(20000910/20)49:1/2<193::AID-NME929>3.0.CO;2-R

Author Information

  1. Scientific Computation Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY 12180, U.S.A.

*Los Alamos National Laboratory, EES-5, MS C306, Los Alamos, NM 87545, U.S.A.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 18 JUL 2000
  2. Article first published online: 18 JUL 2000
  3. Manuscript Revised: 4 AUG 1999
  4. Manuscript Received: 15 APR 1999

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Keywords:

  • anisotropic mesh generation;
  • boundary layer meshes;
  • viscous flow simulations

Abstract

Viscous flow problems exhibit boundary layers and free shear layers in which the solution gradients, normal and tangential to the flow, differ by orders of magnitude. The generalized advancing layers method is presented here as a method of generating meshes suitable for capturing such flows. The method includes several new technical advances allowing it to mesh complex geometric domains that cannot be handled by other techniques. It is currently being used for simulations in the automotive industry. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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