Numerical simulation of compressible multifluid flows using an adaptive positivity‐preserving RKDG‐GFM approach. (23rd October 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ge, Liang; Zhang, A‐Man; Zhang, Zhong‐Yu; Wang, Shi‐Ping
• Is Part Of: International journal for numerical methods in fluids. Volume 91:Number 12(2019)
• Page Start: 615
• Page End: 636
• Publication Date: 2019-10-23
• Subjects: adaptive mesh refinement -- compressible multifluid flows -- ghost fluid methods -- positivity‐preserving limiter -- Runge‐Kutta discontinuous Galerkin method -- underwater explosion; Fluid dynamics -- Mathematics -- Periodicals; 532
• DOI: 10.1002/fld.4769
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0271-2091

Abstract

Summary: The Runge‐Kutta discontinuous Galerkin method together with a refined real‐ghost fluid method is incorporated into an adaptive mesh refinement environment for solving compressible multifluid flows, where the level set method is used to capture the moving material interface. To ensure that the Riemann problem is exactly along the normal direction of the material interface, a simple and efficient modification is introduced into the original real‐ghost fluid method for constructing the interfacial Riemann problem, and the initial conditions of the Riemann problem are obtained directly from the solution polynomials of the discontinuous Galerkin finite element space. In addition, a positivity‐preserving limiter is introduced into the Runge‐Kutta discontinuous Galerkin method to suppress the failure of preserving positivity of density or pressure for the problems involving strong shock wave or shock interaction with material interface. For interfacial cells in adaptive mesh refinement, the data transfer between different grid levels is achieved by using a L 2 projection approach along with the least squares fitting. Various numerical cases, including multifluid shock tubes, underwater explosions, and shock‐induced collapse of a underwater air bubble, are computed to assess the capability of the present adaptive positivity‐preserving RKDG‐GFM approach, and the simulated results show that the present approach is quite robust and can provide relatively reasonable results across a wide variety of flow regimes, even for problems involving strong shock wave or shock wave impacting high acoustic impedance mismatch material interface. Abstract : The Runge‐Kutta discontinuous Galerkin method together with a level set method to capture the moving material interface and a present refined real‐ghost fluid method to treat the interface is incorporated into an adaptive mesh refinement environment for solving compressible multifluid flows. Examples involving shock tube, underwater explosion, and shock‐bubble interaction are studied, and the results show that the present approach is quite robust and can provide relatively reasonable results across a wide variety of flow regimes, even for problems involving strong shock wave or shock wave impacting high acoustic impedance mismatch material interface.