Boundary Layer Meshing for Viscous Flows in Complex Domains

High reynolds number ow simulations exhibit strong gradients normal to walls and across shear layers requiring much ner resolution of the solution in some directions compared to others. To keep mesh sizes manageable for such problems, meshes with highly anisotropic elements are necessary. In this paper, a method for generating boundary layer meshes for arbitrarily complex non-manifold geometric domains is discussed. A popular strategy for generation of boundary layers meshes is generalized to deal with nonmanifold model topology as well as to generate better shaped elements. Results on complex con gurations are presented to demonstrate the capabilities of the mesh generator.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1998
• Where: IMR
• Authors: Rao V. Garimella, Mark S. Shephard
• Keywords: Boundary Layer Meshes, Boundary Layers Meshes, Computational Geometry, IMR 1998, Number Ow Simulations