Theses and Dissertations

Issuing Body

Mississippi State University

Advisor

Blades, Eric L.

Committee Member

Janus, J. Mark

Committee Member

Newman, James, III

Committee Member

Hughson, Montgomery

Date of Degree

5-5-2007

Document Type

Graduate Thesis - Open Access

Major

Aerospace Engineering

Degree Name

Master of Science

College

James Worth Bagley College of Engineering

Department

Department of Aerospace Engineering

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to implement four additional inviscid flux methods in the U2NCLE solver being developed at Mississippi State University. The goal is that some or all of these methods may provide benefits over the current options with respect to accuracy or robustness. These four methods include both the Harten, Lax, Van Leer, Einfeldt (HLLE) and Harten, Lax, Van Leer ? Contact (HLLC) methods as well as the Advection Upstream Splitting Method (AUSM) and its successor AUSM+. The HLL family, which includes both HLLE and HLLC are based on the Riemann problem, which is divided into a number of states. The AUSM family attempts to combine the effects of both flux vector and flux difference splittings to create better schemes. Several simple and complex cases were run with each new method and compared to the methods currently available as well as experimental and analytical results when available. The results of the simple tests showed that all the methods were similarly suited for delivering accurate results on simple cases. In more complex cases, however, the AUSM family proved to be less robust and failed to converge for the final case. The HLLE method showed excellent robustness qualities but seemed to over predict the viscous values in several cases. The HLLC method proved equally as accurate and robust as Roe's Method.

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11668/21265

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