Non-homogeneous anisotropic bulk viscosity for acoustic wave attenuation in weakly compressible methods

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Hauptverfasser: Raghunathan, Dheeraj, Sudhakar, Y.
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author Raghunathan, Dheeraj
Sudhakar, Y.
author_facet Raghunathan, Dheeraj
Sudhakar, Y.
contents A major limitation of the weakly compressible approaches to simulate incompressible flows is the appearance of artificial acoustic waves that introduce a large mass conservation error and lead to spurious oscillations in the force coefficients. In this work, we propose a non-homogeneous anisotropic bulk viscosity term to effectively damp the acoustic waves. By implementing this term in a computational framework based on the recently proposed general pressure equation, we demonstrate that the non-homogeneous and anisotropic nature of the term makes it significantly more effective than the isotropic homogeneous version widely used in the literature. Moreover, it is computationally more efficient than the pressure (or mass) diffusion term, which is an alternative mechanism used to suppress acoustic waves. We simulate a range of benchmark problems to comprehensively investigate the performance of the bulk viscosity on the effective suppression of acoustic waves, mass conservation error, order of convergence of the solver, and computational efficiency. The proposed form of the bulk viscosity enables fairly accurate modelling of the initial transients of unsteady simulations, which is highly challenging for weakly compressible approaches, and to the best of our knowledge, existing approaches can't provide an accurate prediction of such transients.
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spellingShingle Non-homogeneous anisotropic bulk viscosity for acoustic wave attenuation in weakly compressible methods
Raghunathan, Dheeraj
Sudhakar, Y.
Fluid Dynamics
Computational Physics
A major limitation of the weakly compressible approaches to simulate incompressible flows is the appearance of artificial acoustic waves that introduce a large mass conservation error and lead to spurious oscillations in the force coefficients. In this work, we propose a non-homogeneous anisotropic bulk viscosity term to effectively damp the acoustic waves. By implementing this term in a computational framework based on the recently proposed general pressure equation, we demonstrate that the non-homogeneous and anisotropic nature of the term makes it significantly more effective than the isotropic homogeneous version widely used in the literature. Moreover, it is computationally more efficient than the pressure (or mass) diffusion term, which is an alternative mechanism used to suppress acoustic waves. We simulate a range of benchmark problems to comprehensively investigate the performance of the bulk viscosity on the effective suppression of acoustic waves, mass conservation error, order of convergence of the solver, and computational efficiency. The proposed form of the bulk viscosity enables fairly accurate modelling of the initial transients of unsteady simulations, which is highly challenging for weakly compressible approaches, and to the best of our knowledge, existing approaches can't provide an accurate prediction of such transients.
title Non-homogeneous anisotropic bulk viscosity for acoustic wave attenuation in weakly compressible methods
topic Fluid Dynamics
Computational Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03475