A robust and efficient hybrid cut-cell/ghost-cell method with adaptive mesh refinement for moving boundaries on irregular domains

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 198, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 432-448

  Ji, Hua ^a   Lien, Fue Sang ^b   Yee, Eugene ^c  

^a Waterloo CFD Engineering Consulting Inc   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive mesh refinement; Arbitrary complex boundary; Hybrid cut cell ghost cell method; Moving boundaries; Multigrid acceleration

Indexed keywords

CYTOLOGY; DATA STRUCTURES; FILE ORGANIZATION; MESH GENERATION; OPEN CHANNEL FLOW; SOLUTIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT; ARBITRARY COMPLEX BOUNDARY; HYBRID CUT-CELL/GHOST-CELL METHOD; MOVING BOUNDARIES; MULTIGRID ACCELERATION;

CELLS;

EID: 55649094438     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2008.08.015     Document Type: Article

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