Edge-Based Anisotropic Mesh Adaptation for CFD Applications

  • Thierry Coupez
  • Ghina Jannoun
  • Jeremy Veysset
  • Elie Hachem
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Summary

This paper presents an anisotropic mesh adaptation technique relying on the length distribution tensor approach and an edge based error estimator. It enables to calculate a stretching factor providing a new edge length distribution, its associated tensor and the corresponding metric. The optimal stretching factor field is obtained by solving an optimization problem under the constraint of a fixed number of nodes. It accounts for different component fields in a single metric. With such features, the method proves to be simple and efficient and can be easily applied to a large panel of challenging CFD applications.

Keywords

Posteriori Error Secondary Vortex Posteriori Error Estimator Mesh Adaptation Anisotropic Mesh 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Thierry Coupez
    • 1
  • Ghina Jannoun
    • 1
  • Jeremy Veysset
    • 1
  • Elie Hachem
    • 1
  1. 1.Mines ParisTech, UMR CNRS 7635Sophia-AntipolisFrance

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