Print Email Facebook Twitter A meshless front tracking method for the Euler equations of fluid dynamics Title A meshless front tracking method for the Euler equations of fluid dynamics Author Witteveen, J.A.S. Faculty Aerospace Engineering Department Aerodynamics & Wind Energy Date 2009-06-01 Abstract A second order front tracking method is developed for solving the Euler equations of inviscid fluid dynamics numerically. Front tracking methods are usually limited to first order accuracy, since they are based on a piecewise constant approximation of the solution. Here the second order convergence is achieved by building a piecewise linear reconstruction of the piecewise constant front tracking solution in a post-processing step. The linearization is performed by decomposing the piecewise constant solution of the hyperbolic system into its wave components and by linearizing the wave solutions separately. In order to achieve a physically correct linearization, the front types of the previously developed improved front tracking method are employed. It is illustrated numerically for the one-dimensional unsteady interacting blast waves problem and a two-dimensional supersonic airfoil flow validation study that the proposed front tracking method can achieve second order convergence also in the presents of strong discontinuities. Subject front trackingsecond ordermeshless methodsEuler equations To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f57d4dd7-fbdd-43d5-aa82-c1abd2a9cc14 Source Proceedings of the Computational Modelling and Advanced Simulations, CMAS 2009, 30 June-3 July, 2009, Bratislava, Slovakia Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2009 Witteveen, J.A.S. Files PDF Witteveen2_2009.pdf 586.88 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:f57d4dd7-fbdd-43d5-aa82-c1abd2a9cc14/datastream/OBJ/view