Unstructured mesh procedures for the simulation of three‐dimensional transient compressible inviscid flows with moving boundary components

SUMMARY The solution of high-speed transient inviscid compressible flow problems in three dimensions is considered. Discretization of the spatial domain is accomplished by the use of tetrahedral elements generated by Delaunay triangulation with automatic point creation. Methods of adapting the mesh to allow for boundary movement are considered and a strategy for ensuring boundary recovery is proposed. An explicit multistage time-stepping algorithm is employed to advance the flow solution. A number of examples are included to illustrate the numerical performance of the proposed procedures. # 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Int. J. Numer. Meth. Fluids, 27: 41‐55 (1998)

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