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ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA ›› 2016, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (11): 3226-3235.doi: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2016.0038

• Fluid Mechanics and Flight Mechanics • Previous Articles     Next Articles

A new method to accelerate GMRES's convergence applying to three-dimensional hybrid grid

ZHANG Jian, DENG Youqi, LI Bin, ZHANG Yaobing   

  1. Computational Aerodynamic Institute of China Aerodynamic Research & Development Center, Mianyang 621000, China
  • Received:2015-11-25 Revised:2016-01-24 Online:2016-11-15 Published:2016-03-02

Abstract:

To improve the convergence efficiency of solving the flow field, a parallel implicit time integration method generalized minimal residual (GMRES) is applied to a three-dimentional hybrid grid Navier-Stokes solver. The method is implemented based on a Krylov subspace solver in the scientific computation toolkit portable, extensible toolkit for scientific computation (PETSc). The coefficient matrix of linear system is provided explicitly to stabilize the scheme. In order to accelerate the convergence more specifically, the cell indexes of unstructured grid are reordered such that the system matrix's nonzero elements are clustered close to the main diagonal. The method is applied to simulations of ONERA-M6 wing and AIAA Drag Prediction Workshop model CRM. The results show great agreement with experimental data. Comparisons are made between different implicit schemes. The GMRES method developed in this paper shows more robustness and the residual's convergence has a significant speedup compared with LU-SGS method. Moreover, the method has a faster speed approximating to the steady state of aerodynamic coefficient. It greatly improves the computational efficiency.

Key words: hybrid grid, convergence efficiency, implicit time integration method, GMRES, PETSc, grid reorder

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