This report describes how using the Navier-Stokes equations to numerically calculate a shock wave will more accurately depict a realistic and observed shock wave. Earlier related inviscid shock capturing studies that have attempted to numerically calculate the shock wave and downstream field surrounding a blunt body re-entering the atmosphere have exhibited an instability known as the carbuncle...

The present work introduces a modified scheme for the solution of compressible 2-D full Navier-Stokes equations, using Flux Vector Splitting method. As a result of this modification, numerical diffusion is reduced. The computer code which is developed based on this algorithm can be used easily and accurately to analyze complex flow fields with discontinuity in properties, in cases such as shock...

Deflection analysis of a simply supported microbeam subjected to a concentrated load at the middle is investigated on the basis of a shear deformable beam theory and non-classical theory. Effects of shear deformation and small size are taken into consideration by hyperbolic shear deformable beam theory and modified strain gradient theory, respectively. The governing differential equations and c...

When discussing numerical solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations, especially when turbulent flows are concerned, there are at least two questions that can be raised. What is meaningful to compute? How to determine the fidelity of the computed solution with respect to the true solution? This paper takes a step to the answer of these questions for turbulent flows. We consider long time averages...

In this paper, we investigate the system of compressible Navier-Stokes equations with hyperbolic heat conduction, i.e., replacing the Fourier’s law by Cattaneo’s law. First, by using Kawashima’s condition on general hyperbolic parabolic systems, we show that for small relaxation time τ , global smooth solution exists for small initial data. Moreover, as τ goes to zero, we obtain the uniform con...

The thermal expansion of a fluid combined with a temperature-dependent viscosity introduces nonlinearities in the Navier-Stokes equations unrelated to the convective momentum current. The couplings generate the possibility for net fluid flow at the microscale controlled by external heating. This novel thermomechanical effect is investigated for a thin fluid chamber by a numerical solution of th...

We recover the Navier-Stokes equation as the incompressible limit of a stochastic lattice gas in which particles are allowed to jump over a meso-scopic scale. The result holds in any dimension assuming the existence of a smooth solution of the Navier-Stokes equation in a fixed time interval. The proof does not use non-gradient methods or the multi-scale analysis due to the long range jumps.

The performance of multigrid methods for the standard Poisson problem and for the consistent Poisson problem arising in spectral element discretizations of the Navier-Stokes equations is investigated. It is demonstrated that overlapping additive Schwarz methods are effective smoothers, provided that the solution in the overlap region is weighted by the inverse counting matrix. It is also shown ...

In [14], S. Montgomery-Smith provides a one dimensional model for the three dimensional, incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, for which he proves the blow up of solutions associated to a class of large initial data, while the same global existence results as for the Navier-Stokes equations hold for small data. In this note the model is adapted to the case of two and three space dimensions, w...

We consider the Navier-Stokes-Alpha model as an approximation of turbulent flows under realistic, non-periodic, boundary conditions. We derive that the variational formulation of Navier-Stokes-Alpha model under non-periodic boundary conditions, and prove that it has a unique weak solution. Next we consider finite element approximation of the model. We give semi discretization of the model and p...