Development of a parallelized 2D/2D-axisymmetric Navier-Stokes equation solver for all-speed gas flows

Abstract

A parallelized 2D/2D-axisymmetric pressure-based, extended SIMPLE finite-volume Navier-Stokes equation solver using Cartesians grids has been developed for simulating compressible, viscous, heat conductive and rarefied gas flows at all speeds with conjugate heat transfer. The discretized equations are solved by the parallel Krylov-Schwarz (KS) algorithm, in which the ILU and BiCGStab or GMRES scheme are used as the preconditioner and linear matrix equation solver, respectively. Developed code was validated by comparing previous published simulations wherever available for both low- and high-speed gas flows. Parallel performance for a typical 2D driven cavity problem is tested on the IBM-1350 at NCHC of Taiwan up to 32 processors. Future applications of this code are discussed briefly at the end. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.