Introduction to Computational

Fluid Dynamics (CFD)

Tao Xing, Shanti Bhushan and Fred Stern

IIHR—Hydroscience & Engineering

C. Maxwell Stanley Hydraulics Laboratory
The University of Iowa

57:020 Mechanics of Fluids and Transport Processes

http://css.engineering.uiowa.edu/~fluids/
Ocrtober 7, 2009
 Outline
1. What, why and where of CFD?
2. Modeling
3. Numerical methods
4. Types of CFD codes
5. CFD Educational Interface
6. CFD Process
7. Example of CFD Process
8. 57:020 CFD Labs

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 What is CFD?
• CFD is the simulation of fluids engineering systems using modeling
(mathematical physical problem formulation) and numerical methods
(discretization methods, solvers, numerical parameters, and grid
generations, etc.)
• Historically only Analytical Fluid Dynamics (AFD) and Experimental
Fluid Dynamics (EFD).
• CFD made possible by the advent of digital computer and advancing
with improvements of computer resources
(500 flops, 194720 teraflops, 2003 1.3 pentaflops, Roadrunner at
Las Alamos National Lab, 2009.)

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 Why use CFD?
• Analysis and Design
1. Simulation-based design instead of “build & test”
More cost effective and more rapid than EFD
CFD provides high-fidelity database for diagnosing flow
field
2. Simulation of physical fluid phenomena that are
difficult for experiments
Full scale simulations (e.g., ships and airplanes)
Environmental effects (wind, weather, etc.)
Hazards (e.g., explosions, radiation, pollution)
Physics (e.g., planetary boundary layer, stellar
evolution)
• Knowledge and exploration of flow physics

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 Where is CFD used?
• Where is CFD used? Aerospace

• Aerospace
• Automotive
• Biomedical Biomedical

• Chemical
Processing F18 Store Separation

• HVAC
• Hydraulics
• Marine
• Oil & Gas
• Power Generation
• Sports
Automotive Temperature and natural
convection currents in the eye
following laser heating.

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 Where is CFD used?
Chemical Processing
• Where is CFD used?
• Aerospacee
• Automotive
• Biomedical
• Chemical
Processing Polymerization reactor vessel - prediction
of flow separation and residence time
• HVAC effects.
Hydraulics
• Hydraulics
• Marine
• Oil & Gas
• Power Generation
• Sports
HVAC
Streamlines for workstation
ventilation

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 Where is CFD used?
Marine (movie) Sports

• Where is CFD used?

• Aerospace
• Automotive
• Biomedical
• Chemical Processing
• HVAC
• Hydraulics
• Marine
• Oil & Gas
• Power Generation
• Sports

Oil & Gas Power Generation

Flow of lubricating Flow around cooling

mud over drill bit towers
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 Modeling
• Modeling is the mathematical physics problem
formulation in terms of a continuous initial
boundary value problem (IBVP)
• IBVP is in the form of Partial Differential
Equations (PDEs) with appropriate boundary
conditions and initial conditions.
• Modeling includes:
1. Geometry and domain
2. Coordinates
3. Governing equations
4. Flow conditions
5. Initial and boundary conditions
6. Selection of models for different applications

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Modeling (geometry and domain)
• Simple geometries can be easily created by few geometric
parameters (e.g. circular pipe)
• Complex geometries must be created by the partial
differential equations or importing the database of the
geometry(e.g. airfoil) into commercial software
• Domain: size and shape
• Typical approaches
• Geometry approximation
• CAD/CAE integration: use of industry standards such as
Parasolid, ACIS, STEP, or IGES, etc.
• The three coordinates: Cartesian system (x,y,z), cylindrical
system (r, θ, z), and spherical system(r, θ, Φ) should be
appropriately chosen for a better resolution of the geometry
(e.g. cylindrical for circular pipe).

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 Modeling (coordinates)
z Cartesian z Cylindrical z Spherical
(x,y,z) (r,,z) (r,,)

z
y y y
 r  r
x x x

General Curvilinear Coordinates General orthogonal

Coordinates

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 Modeling (governing equations)
• Navier-Stokes equations (3D in Cartesian coordinates)
u u u u pˆ   2u  2u  2u 
  u  v  w    2  2  2 
t x y z x  x y z 
v v v v pˆ   2v  2v  2v 
  u  v  w      2  2  2 
t x y z y  x y z 
w w w w pˆ  2w 2w 2w
  u  v  w     2  2  2 
t x y z z  x y z 

Local Convection Piezometric pressure gradient Viscous terms

acceleration
 u  v  w
    0 Continuity equation
t x y z
p  RT Equation of state
D 2 R 3 DR 2 pv  p
R  ( )  Rayleigh Equation
Dt 2 2 Dt L

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 Modeling (flow conditions)
• Based on the physics of the fluids phenomena, CFD
can be distinguished into different categories using
different criteria
• Viscous vs. inviscid (Re)
• External flow or internal flow (wall bounded or not)
• Turbulent vs. laminar (Re)
• Incompressible vs. compressible (Ma)
• Single- vs. multi-phase (Ca)
• Thermal/density effects (Pr, g, Gr, Ec)
• Free-surface flow (Fr) and surface tension (We)
• Chemical reactions and combustion (Pe, Da)
• etc…

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 Modeling (initial conditions)
• Initial conditions (ICS, steady/unsteady flows)
• ICs should not affect final results and only
affect convergence path, i.e. number of
iterations (steady) or time steps (unsteady)
need to reach converged solutions.
• More reasonable guess can speed up the
convergence
• For complicated unsteady flow problems,
CFD codes are usually run in the steady
mode for a few iterations for getting a better
initial conditions

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 Modeling(boundary conditions)
•Boundary conditions: No-slip or slip-free on walls,
periodic, inlet (velocity inlet, mass flow rate, constant
pressure, etc.), outlet (constant pressure, velocity
convective, numerical beach, zero-gradient), and non-
reflecting (for compressible flows, such as acoustics), etc.

No-slip walls: u=0,v=0

Inlet ,u=c,v=0 Outlet, p=c

r Periodic boundary condition in
v=0, dp/dr=0,du/dr=0 spanwise direction of an airfoil
o x
Axisymmetric

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 Modeling (selection of models)
• CFD codes typically designed for solving certain fluid
phenomenon by applying different models
• Viscous vs. inviscid (Re)
• Turbulent vs. laminar (Re, Turbulent models)
• Incompressible vs. compressible (Ma, equation of state)
• Single- vs. multi-phase (Ca, cavitation model, two-fluid
model)
• Thermal/density effects and energy equation
(Pr, g, Gr, Ec, conservation of energy)
• Free-surface flow (Fr, level-set & surface tracking model) and
surface tension (We, bubble dynamic model)
• Chemical reactions and combustion (Chemical reaction
model)
• etc…
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Modeling (Turbulence and free surface models)
• Turbulent flows at high Re usually involve both large and small scale
vortical structures and very thin turbulent boundary layer (BL) near the wall
• Turbulent models:
• DNS: most accurately solve NS equations, but too expensive
for turbulent flows
• RANS: predict mean flow structures, efficient inside BL but excessive
diffusion in the separated region.
• LES: accurate in separation region and unaffordable for resolving BL
• DES: RANS inside BL, LES in separated regions.
• Free-surface models:
• Surface-tracking method: mesh moving to capture free surface,
limited to small and medium wave slopes
• Single/two phase level-set method: mesh fixed and level-set
function used to capture the gas/liquid interface, capable of
studying steep or breaking waves.
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Examples of modeling (Turbulence and free
surface models)
URANS, Re=105, contour of vorticity for turbulent
flow around NACA12 with angle of attack 60 degrees

DES, Re=105, Iso-surface of Q criterion (0.4) for

turbulent flow around NACA12 with angle of attack 60
degrees

URANS, Wigley Hull pitching and heaving

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 Numerical methods
• The continuous Initial Boundary Value Problems
(IBVPs) are discretized into algebraic equations
using numerical methods. Assemble the system of
algebraic equations and solve the system to get
approximate solutions
• Numerical methods include:
1. Discretization methods
2. Solvers and numerical parameters
3. Grid generation and transformation
4. High Performance Computation (HPC) and post-
processing

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 Discretization methods
• Finite difference methods (straightforward to apply,
usually for regular grid) and finite volumes and finite
element methods (usually for irregular meshes)
• Each type of methods above yields the same solution if
the grid is fine enough. However, some methods are
more suitable to some cases than others
• Finite difference methods for spatial derivatives with
different order of accuracies can be derived using
Taylor expansions, such as 2nd order upwind scheme,
central differences schemes, etc.
• Higher order numerical methods usually predict higher
order of accuracy for CFD, but more likely unstable due
to less numerical dissipation
• Temporal derivatives can be integrated either by the
explicit method (Euler, Runge-Kutta, etc.) or implicit
method (e.g. Beam-Warming method)

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Discretization methods (Cont’d)
• Explicit methods can be easily applied but yield
conditionally stable Finite Different Equations (FDEs),
which are restricted by the time step; Implicit methods
are unconditionally stable, but need efforts on
efficiency.
• Usually, higher-order temporal discretization is used
when the spatial discretization is also of higher order.
• Stability: A discretization method is said to be stable if
it does not magnify the errors that appear in the course
of numerical solution process.
• Pre-conditioning method is used when the matrix of the
linear algebraic system is ill-posed, such as multi-phase
flows, flows with a broad range of Mach numbers, etc.
• Selection of discretization methods should consider
efficiency, accuracy and special requirements, such as
shock wave tracking.

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 Discretization methods (example)
• 2D incompressible laminar flow boundary layer
(L,m+1)
y
u v m=MM+1
 0 (L-1,m) (L,m) m=MM
x y
m=1
u u   p  2u m=0
u v     2 x
x y x  e  y (L,m-1) L-1 L

u uml
u  uml  uml 1   2u 
x x  2  2 uml 1  2uml  uml 1 
y y
u vml
v  uml 1  uml  FD Sign( v l )<0 2nd order central difference
y y m
i.e., theoretical order of accuracy
vml
 uml  uml 1  BD Sign( l )>0 Pkest= 2.
y vm
1st order upwind scheme, i.e., theoretical order of accuracy Pkest= 1 21
 Discretization methods (example)
B
 B2 1  3 B1
 ul  FD
y 2  l   vml  l   vml 
  vm
m l
 2  um   2  FD  um1   2  BD  uml 1
 x 1
BD y   y y   y y 
 y 
uml l 1 
 um  ( p / e)lm
 x x
B1uml 1  B2uml  B3uml 1  B4uml 1   m
l
p / e B4
x
 l 1   p 
l
 Solve it using
 B4u1    
 2
B B3 0 0 0 0 0 0   u1 l
  x  e 1  Thomas algorithm
B B B    
 
 0 0 0 0 0    
1 2 3
 
           
     
 0 0 0 0 0 B B B      
1 2 3

 0 0 0 0 0 0 B1 B2  umm   l
  p 
l
l 1
 B4umm    
To be stable, Matrix has to be  x  e mm 
Diagonally dominant.
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 Solvers and numerical parameters
• Solvers include: tridiagonal, pentadiagonal solvers,
PETSC solver, solution-adaptive solver, multi-grid
solvers, etc.
• Solvers can be either direct (Cramer’s rule, Gauss
elimination, LU decomposition) or iterative (Jacobi
method, Gauss-Seidel method, SOR method)
• Numerical parameters need to be specified to control
the calculation.
• Under relaxation factor, convergence limit, etc.
• Different numerical schemes
• Monitor residuals (change of results between
iterations)
• Number of iterations for steady flow or number of
time steps for unsteady flow
• Single/double precisions
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 Numerical methods (grid generation)
• Grids can either be structured structured
(hexahedral) or unstructured
(tetrahedral). Depends upon type of
discretization scheme and application
• Scheme
 Finite differences: structured
 Finite volume or finite element:
structured or unstructured
• Application
 Thin boundary layers best
resolved with highly-stretched unstructured
structured grids
 Unstructured grids useful for
complex geometries
 Unstructured grids permit
automatic adaptive refinement
based on the pressure gradient,
or regions interested (FLUENT)
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 Numerical methods (grid
transformation)
y 

Transform

o x o 
Physical domain Computational domain

•Transformation between physical (x,y,z) f f  f  f f

and computational (,,z) domains,    x  x
x  x  x  
important for body-fitted grids. The partial
f f  f  f f
derivatives at these two domains have the    y y
y  y  y  
relationship (2D as an example)

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 High performance computing
• CFD computations (e.g. 3D unsteady flows) are usually very expensive
which requires parallel high performance supercomputers (e.g. IBM
690) with the use of multi-block technique.
• As required by the multi-block technique, CFD codes need to be
developed using the Massage Passing Interface (MPI) Standard to
transfer data between different blocks.
• Emphasis on improving:
• Strong scalability, main bottleneck pressure Poisson solver for incompressible flow.
• Weak scalability, limited by the memory requirements.

Figure: Weak scalability of total times without I/O for CFDShip-Iowa

Figure: Strong scalability of total times without I/O for
V6 and V4 on IBM P6 (DaVinci) and SGI Altix (Hawk) are compared
CFDShip-Iowa V6 and V4 on NAVO Cray XT5 (Einstein) and
with ideal scaling.
IBM P6 (DaVinci) are compared with ideal scaling.
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 Post-Processing
• Post-processing: 1. Visualize the CFD results (contour, velocity
vectors, streamlines, pathlines, streak lines, and iso-surface in
3D, etc.), and 2. CFD UA: verification and validation using EFD
data (more details later)
• Post-processing usually through using commercial software

Figure: Isosurface of Q=300 colored using piezometric pressure, free=surface colored using z for fully appended Athena,
Fr=0.25, Re=2.9×108. Tecplot360 is used for visualization.

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 Types of CFD codes
• Commercial CFD code: FLUENT, Star-
CD, CFDRC, CFX/AEA, etc.
• Research CFD code: CFDSHIP-IOWA
• Public domain software (PHI3D,
HYDRO, and WinpipeD, etc.)
• Other CFD software includes the Grid
generation software (e.g. Gridgen,
Gambit) and flow visualization software
(e.g. Tecplot, FieldView)

CFDSHIPIOWA
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 CFD Educational Interface

Lab1: Pipe Flow Lab 2: Airfoil Flow Lab3: Diffuser Lab4: Ahmed car
1. Definition of “CFD Process” 1. Boundary conditions 1. Meshing and iterative 1. Meshing and iterative
2. Boundary conditions 2. Effect of order of accuracy convergence convergence
3. Iterative error on verification results 2. Boundary layer 2. Boundary layer separation
4. Grid error 3. Effect of grid generation separation 3. Axial velocity profile
5. Developing length of topology, “C” and “O” 3. Axial velocity profile 4. Streamlines
laminar and turbulent pipe Meshes 4. Streamlines 5. Effect of slant angle and
flows. 4. Effect of angle of 5. Effect of turbulence comparison with LES,
6. Verification using AFD attack/turbulent models on models EFD, and RANS.
7. Validation using EFD flow field 6. Effect of expansion
5. Verification and Validation angle and comparison
using EFD with LES, EFD, and
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 CFD process
• Purposes of CFD codes will be different for different
applications: investigation of bubble-fluid interactions for bubbly
flows, study of wave induced massively separated flows for
free-surface, etc.
• Depend on the specific purpose and flow conditions of the
problem, different CFD codes can be chosen for different
applications (aerospace, marines, combustion, multi-phase
flows, etc.)
• Once purposes and CFD codes chosen, “CFD process” is the
steps to set up the IBVP problem and run the code:
1. Geometry
2. Physics
3. Mesh
4. Solve
5. Reports
6. Post processing

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 CFD Process
Geometry Physics Mesh Solve Reports Post-
Processing

Select Heat Transfer Unstructured Steady/ Forces Report Contours

Geometry ON/OFF (automatic/ Unsteady (lift/drag, shear
manual) stress, etc)

Compressible Structured Iterations/ XY Plot Vectors

Geometry ON/OFF (automatic/ Steps
Parameters manual)

Domain Flow Convergent Verification Streamlines

Shape and properties Limit
Size

Viscous Precisions Validation

Model (single/
double)

Boundary Numerical
Conditions Scheme

Initial
Conditions

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 Geometry
• Selection of an appropriate coordinate
• Determine the domain size and shape
• Any simplifications needed?
• What kinds of shapes needed to be used to best
resolve the geometry? (lines, circular, ovals, etc.)
• For commercial code, geometry is usually created
using commercial software (either separated from the
commercial code itself, like Gambit, or combined
together, like FlowLab)
• For research code, commercial software (e.g.
Gridgen) is used.

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 Physics
• Flow conditions and fluid properties
1. Flow conditions: inviscid, viscous, laminar,
or
turbulent, etc.
2. Fluid properties: density, viscosity, and
thermal conductivity, etc.
3. Flow conditions and properties usually
presented in dimensional form in industrial
commercial CFD software, whereas in non-
dimensional variables for research codes.
• Selection of models: different models usually
fixed by codes, options for user to choose
• Initial and Boundary Conditions: not fixed
by codes, user needs specify them for different
applications.
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 Mesh
• Meshes should be well designed to resolve
important flow features which are dependent upon
flow condition parameters (e.g., Re), such as the
grid refinement inside the wall boundary layer
• Mesh can be generated by either commercial codes
(Gridgen, Gambit, etc.) or research code (using
algebraic vs. PDE based, conformal mapping, etc.)
• The mesh, together with the boundary conditions
need to be exported from commercial software in a
certain format that can be recognized by the
research CFD code or other commercial CFD
software.

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 Solve
• Setup appropriate numerical parameters
• Choose appropriate Solvers
• Solution procedure (e.g. incompressible flows)
Solve the momentum, pressure Poisson
equations and get flow field quantities, such as
velocity, turbulence intensity, pressure and
integral quantities (lift, drag forces)

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 Reports
• Reports saved the time history of the residuals
of the velocity, pressure and temperature, etc.
• Report the integral quantities, such as total
pressure drop, friction factor (pipe flow), lift
and drag coefficients (airfoil flow), etc.
• XY plots could present the centerline
velocity/pressure distribution, friction factor
distribution (pipe flow), pressure coefficient
distribution (airfoil flow).
• AFD or EFD data can be imported and put on
top of the XY plots for validation

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 Post-processing
• Analysis and visualization
• Calculation of derived variables
 Vorticity
 Wall shear stress
• Calculation of integral parameters: forces,
moments
• Visualization (usually with commercial
software)
 Simple 2D contours
 3D contour isosurface plots
 Vector plots and streamlines
(streamlines are the lines whose
tangent direction is the same as the
velocity vectors)
 Animations

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Post-processing (Uncertainty Assessment)
• Simulation error: the difference between a simulation result
S and the truth T (objective reality), assumed composed of
additive modeling δSM and numerical δSN errors:

Error:  S  S  T   SM   SN Uncertainty: U S2  U SM
2
 U SN
2

• Verification: process for assessing simulation numerical

uncertainties USN and, when conditions permit, estimating the
sign and magnitude Delta δ*SN of the simulation numerical error
itself and the uncertainties in that error estimate USN
J
 SN   I   G   T   P   I    j 2
U SN  U I2  U G2  U T2  U P2
j 1
I: Iterative, G : Grid, T: Time step, P: Input parameters

• Validation: process for assessing simulation modeling

uncertainty USM by using benchmark experimental data and,
when conditions permit, estimating the sign and magnitude of
the modeling error δSM itself.
E  D  S    (   ) U 2
V  U 2
D  U 2
SN
D SM SN

D: EFD Data; UV: Validation Uncertainty E  UV Validation achieved

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 Post-processing (UA, Verification)
• Convergence studies: Convergence studies require a
minimum of m=3 solutions to evaluate convergence with
respective to input parameters.

Consider

the solutions 
corresponding to fine S k 1 , medium S k 2 ,and coarse meshes S k 3
    Monotonic Convergence

 k 21  Sk 2  Sk 1  k 32  Sk 3  Sk 2
Rk   k 21  k 32
(i). Monotonic convergence: 0<Rk<1
(ii). Oscillatory Convergence: Rk<0; | Rk|<1 Monotonic Divergence Oscillatory Convergence

(iii). Monotonic divergence: Rk>1

(iv). Oscillatory divergence: Rk<0; | Rk|>1

• Grid refinement ratio: uniform ratio of grid spacing between meshes.

rk  xk2 xk1  xk3 xk2  xkm xkm1

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 Post-processing (Verification, RE)
• Generalized Richardson Extrapolation (RE): For
monotonic convergence, generalized RE is used
to estimate the error δ*k and order of accuracy pk
due to the selection of the kth input parameter.
• The error is expanded in a power series expansion
with integer powers of xk as a finite sum.
• The accuracy of the estimates depends on how
many terms are retained in the expansion, the
magnitude (importance) of the higher-order terms,
and the validity of the assumptions made in RE
theory

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 Post-processing (Verification, RE)
 SN   SN
*
  SN ε is the error in the estimate
SN
S C  S   SN
*
SC is the numerical benchmark
Finite sum for the kth
Power series expansion parameter and mth solution
pk i 
J
Sˆk  Sk   I  SC   k    *jm  k*   xk 
* * n
m m km m g ki 
j 1, j  k m m
i 1

pk( i )

 
n J
p k(i ) order of accuracy for the ith term
Sˆkm  SC   xkm g  (i )
k  *
jm
i 1 j 1, j  k

   
J J
Sˆk1  SC  xk1  Sˆk2  SC  rk xk1 
pk(1) pk(1)
g (1)
k  *
j1 g (1)
k  *
j2
j 1, j  k j 1, j  k

 
J


pk(1)
Sˆk3  SC  rk2 xk1 g (1)
k  *
j3 Three equations with three unknowns
j 1, j  k


ln  k32  k21  k
pk   
* *
 21

ln rk  k1 REk 1
rkpk  1
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 Post-processing (UA, Verification, cont’d)
• Monotonic Convergence: Generalized Richardson
Extrapolation
ln   k 32  k 21  rkpk  1  9.6 1  C 2  1.1  *
Ck   1  Ck  0.125
pk  U k    REk 1
k
1
pkest
ln  rk  r
k

 
 2 1  C k  1
  *
REk1
1  Ck  0.125
1. Correction  k 21
factors  RE
*

 2.41Ck 2 0.1 RE* k 1 1  Ck  0.25
1 U kc   1C 1  * *
pk
k1
r k

pkest | k RE
[| 1 kCk |] RE 1 | | 1  Ck | 0.25
is the theoretical order of accuracy, 2 for 2nd k1

order and 1 for 1st order schemes U k is the uncertainties based on fine mesh
Ck is the correction factor solution,U kc is the uncertainties based on
numerical benchmark SC
U kc  Fs  1  RE
U k  Fs  RE
2. GCI approach * *
FS: Factor of Safety
• Oscillatory Convergence: Uncertainties can1 be estimated, but without
k1 k1

signs and magnitudes of the errors. U k  SU  S L 

• Divergence 2
• In this course, only grid uncertainties studied. So, all the variables with
subscribe symbol k will be replaced by g, such as “Uk” will be “Ug”
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 Post-processing (Verification,
Asymptotic Range)
• Asymptotic Range: For sufficiently small xk, the
solutions are in the asymptotic range such that
higher-order terms are negligible and the
i 
assumption that pki  and g k are independent of xk
is valid.
• When Asymptotic Range reached, pk will be close to
the theoretical value pk , and the correction factor
est

Ck will be close to 1.
• To achieve the asymptotic range for practical
geometry and conditions is usually not possible and
number of grids m>3 is undesirable from a
resources point of view

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 Post-processing (UA, Verification, cont’d)
• Verification for velocity profile using AFD: To avoid ill-
defined ratios, L2 norm of the G21 and G32 are used to define RG
and PG
RG   G21 G ln  G
pG 
G  32 2 21 2

ln rG 
2 32 2

Where <> and || ||2 are used to denote a profile-averaged quantity (with ratio of
solution changes based on L2 norms) and L2 norm, respectively.
NOTE: For verification using AFD for axial velocity profile in laminar pipe flow (CFD
Lab1), there is no modeling error, only grid errors. So, the difference between CFD and
AFD, E, can be plot with +Ug and –Ug, and +Ugc and –Ugc to see if solution was
verified.

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 Post-processing (Verification: Iterative
Convergence)
•Typical CFD solution techniques for obtaining steady state solutions
involve beginning with an initial guess and performing time marching or
iteration until a steady state solution is achieved.
•The number of order magnitude drop and final level of solution residual
can be used to determine stopping criteria for iterative solution techniques
(1) Oscillatory (2) Convergent (3) Mixed oscillatory/convergent

(a) (b)

1
UI  ( SU  S L )
2

Iteration history for series 60: (a). Solution change (b) magnified view of total
resistance over last two periods of oscillation (Oscillatory iterative convergence)
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 Post-processing (UA, Validation)
• Validation procedure: simulation modeling uncertainties
was presented where for successful validation, the comparison
error, E, is less than the validation uncertainty, Uv.
• Interpretation of the results of a validation effort
E  U V Validation achieved E  D  S   D  ( SM   SN )

U V  E Validation not achieved UV  U SN

2
 U D2

• Validation example
Example: Grid study
and validation of
wave profile for
series 60

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 Example of CFD Process using CFD
educational interface (Geometry)

• Turbulent flows (Re=143K) around Clarky airfoil with

angle of attack 6 degree is simulated.
• “C” shape domain is applied
• The radius of the domain Rc and downstream length
Lo should be specified in such a way that the
domain size will not affect the simulation results

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Example of CFD Process (Physics)
No heat transfer

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 Example of CFD Process (Mesh)

Grid need to be refined near the

foil surface to resolve the boundary
layer
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Example of CFD Process (Solve)

Residuals vs. iteration

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Example of CFD Process (Reports)

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Example of CFD Process (Post-processing)

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 57:020 CFD Labs
Schedule

CFD CFD PreLab1 CFD Lab1 CFD PreLab2 CFD Lab 2

Lab
Dates Oct. 13, 15 Oct. 20, 22 Nov. 10, 12 Nov. 17, 19

• CFD Labs instructed by Shanti, Bhushan, Maysam Mousaviraad and Andrew Porter

• Use the educational interface — FlowLab 1.2.14

• Visit class website for more information

http://css.engineering.uiowa.edu/~fluids

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