A weighted shifted boundary method for the Navier-Stokes equations with immersed moving boundaries
Danjie Xu (Duke University)
Oriol Colomés (Duke University, TU Delft - Civil Engineering & Geosciences)
Alex Main (Duke University, Ansys)
Kangan Li (Duke University, The Pennsylvania State University)
Nabil M. Atallah (Duke University, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Nabil Abboud (Ansys)
Guglielmo Scovazzi (Duke University)
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Abstract
The Weighted Shifted Boundary Method (WSBM) was recently introduced as an enhanced Shifted Boundary Method (SBM) for the simulation of flows with moving boundaries. Earlier work of the authors on no-slip boundary conditions for the two-dimensional Stokes flow is extended here to the more challenging case of the three-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations at low and moderate Reynolds numbers. The SBM is an immersed finite element method that reformulates an infinite-dimensional boundary value problem over a surrogate (approximate) computational domain – to avoid integrating over cut cells – and modifies the original boundary conditions using Taylor expansions – to maintain accuracy. The WSBM weights the SBM’s variational form with the elemental volume fraction of active fluid, drastically reducing spurious pressure oscillations in time that occur when the total volume of active fluid changes abruptly over a time step. The WSBM induces small mass (i.e., volume) conservation errors, which converge quadratically in the case of piecewise-linear finite element interpolations, as the grid is refined. An extensive set of two- and three-dimensional tests demonstrates the robustness and accuracy of the proposed approach.