Computational fluid dynamic simulation with moving meshes

  • Yun, Kiyun (Department of Astronomy and Center for Galaxy Evolution Research, Yonsei University) ;
  • Kim, Juhan (Korea Institute for Advanced Study) ;
  • Yoon, Suk-Jin (Department of Astronomy and Center for Galaxy Evolution Research, Yonsei University)
  • 발행 : 2013.10.08

초록

We present a new computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulation code. The code employs the moving and polyhedral unstructured mesh scheme, which is known as a superior approach to the conventional SPH (smoothed particle hydrodynamics) and AMR (adaptive mesh refinement) schemes. The code first generates unstructured meshes by the Voronoi tessellation at every time step, and then solves the Riemann problem for surfaces of every Voronoi cell to update the hydrodynamic states as well as to move former generated meshes. For the second-order accuracy, the MUSCL-Hancock scheme is implemented. To increase efficiency for generating Voronoi tessellation we also develop the incremental expanding method, by which the CPU time is turned out to be just proportional to the number of particles, i.e., O(N). We will discuss the applications of our code in the context of cosmological simulations as well as numerical experiments for galaxy formation.

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