MODERN FINITE VOLUME METHODS SOLVING INTERNAL FLOW PROBLEMS

Abstract

The paper deals with explicit and implicit finite difference and mainly finite volume schemes that have been commonly used in last years for compressible and incompressible fluid flow problems. Mainly we mention schemes used for transonic flow computation (inviscid as well as viscous models) in internal and also external aerodynamics. We prefer modern schemes like RK multistage schemes, TVD and ENO schemes, implicit schemes or higher order schemes.

Some results of numerical computation or numerical simulation are presented in the second part of the paper, including 2D and 3D transonic flow through a channel and a cascade (mainly of turbine type), 2D and 3D backward facing step flow (laminar and turbulent), 2D and 3D impinging jet flow (comparisons of some turbulent models). The last two cases have been computed only for incompressible viscous flows. Some tests for the efficiency of higher order scheme (4^th–6^th order) are presented for the backward facing step problem.

In many examples we also present a comparison of numerical and experimental results.