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ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA ›› 2018, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (12): 122411-122411.doi: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2018.22411

• Fluid Mechanics and Flight Mechanics • Previous Articles     Next Articles

Efficient mesh deformation and flowfield interpolation method for unstructured mesh

GUO Zhongzhou, HE Zhiqiang, ZHAO Wenwen, CHEN Weifang   

  1. School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
  • Received:2018-06-05 Revised:2018-06-14 Online:2018-12-15 Published:2018-07-20
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China (11502232, 11572284, 51575487, 61627901); National Basic Research Program of China (2014CB340201)

Abstract: Unstructured dynamic mesh is widely applied to the simulation of unsteady flow problems containing boundary motions. To improve the efficiency of mesh deformation as well as the capability of handling complex configurations, an efficient K Nearest Neighbor-Radial Basis Functions (KNN-RBF) mesh deformation method is proposed, along with an efficient method to keep the nodes on zonal boundaries consistent. Due to the various forms of boundary motion and deformation, a User Defined Function (UDF) module is developed in the in-house Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code, and flexible manipulation of boundary motion is available when simulating these problems. When simulating cases with large deformations, a global mesh regeneration method is adopted to remedy the regions containing low quality cells. A fast searching of the nearest points between the old mesh and new mesh is realized using the two-level K-Dimensional (KD) tree method, and the interpolation of the flowfiled is accomplished using the nearest points. Thus an efficient and robust interpolation method is developed along with parallel processing. Several cases are simulated to validate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed method.

Key words: unstructured mesh, unsteady flow, mesh deformation, KD tree, flowfield interpolation, time complexity

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