Energy, vorticity and enstrophy conserving mimetic spectral method for the Euler equation
Demian de Ruijter (TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering)
Fulvio Scarano – Mentor (TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering)
Marc Gerritsma – Mentor (TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering)
Alexander van Zuijlen – Mentor (TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering)
Pedro Pinto Rebelo – Mentor (TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering)
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Abstract
The behaviour of an inviscid, constant density fluid on which no body forces act, may be modelled by the two-dimensional incompressible Euler equations, a non-linear system of partial differential equations. If a fluid whose behaviour is described by these equations, is confined to a space where no fluid flows in or out, the kinetic energy, vorticity integral and enstrophy integral within that space remain constant in time. Solving the Euler equations accompanied by appropriate boundary and initial conditions may be done analytically, but more often than not, no analytical solution is available. The solution, however, can always be approximated and usually a computer is used to provide a numerical approximation.