Global kinetic energy conservation with unstructured meshes

S. Benhamadouche, D. Laurence

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    Abstract

    Conserving kinetic energy is essential in Large Eddy Simulation (LES) in order that subgrid scale modelling (SGS) is not hidden by numerical errors. High-order schemes, which are not available for unstructured grids, are sufficient but not a necessary condition for energy conservation. The problem addressed here is directly ensuring energy conservation through a careful discretization of the momentum and mass equations, and it is shown that this can be achieved with a low-order scheme for unstructured grids. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)561-571
    Number of pages10
    JournalInternational Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids
    Volume40
    Issue number3-4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 30 Sept 2002

    Keywords

    • Finite volume-finite element method
    • Global energy conservation
    • Large eddy simulation
    • Unsteady navier-stokes
    • Unstructured mesh

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