M4 ENGINEERING, INC. — National Aeronautics and Space Administration STTR Phase I: T9

Description

An unsteady, feature-based grid adaptation approach is proposed that addresses the main drawbacks of the current state of the art, namely, the lack of error control of the unsteady derivative terms, the lack of continuous representation of the mesh metric sensors in time, and the lack of adaptation of the mesh velocity to the dynamic flow features in hypersonic flows, e.g., shocks, mixing layers, and separation regions.A grid adaptation algorithm using Dynamic Mode Decomposition will be implemented and integrated into the existing FUN3D CFD code developed at NASA Langley. The proposed algorithm is implemented in a five step process consisting of: 1) featurization of a sensor field in the flow, 2) mesh tensor metric evaluation, 3) Remeshing of the volume, 4) inner-outer loop synchronization to a consistent time-step, and 5) spatial interpolation of the field variables.The proposed algorithm will be compared against the current state of the art and be demonstrated on an oscillating cylinder in supersonic flow.