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Mesh-free hydrodynamic stability

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Tianyi Chu
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Oliver T. Schmidt *
DOI:10.1016/j.jcp.2024.112822delete
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A specialized mesh -free radial basis function -based finite difference (RBF-FD) discretization is used to solve the large eigenvalue problems arising in hydrodynamic stability analyses of flows in complex domains. Polyharmonic spline functions with polynomial augmentation (PHS+poly) are used to construct the discrete linearized incompressible and compressible Navier-Stokes operators on scattered nodes. Rigorous global and local eigenvalue stability studies of these global operators and their constituent RBF stencils provide a set of parameters that guarantee stability without the need for hyperviscosity or other ad hoc regularizations, while balancing accuracy and computational efficiency. Specialized elliptical stencils to compute boundarynormal derivatives are introduced, and the treatment of reflectional and rotational symmetries is discussed. In particular, treating the pole singularity in cylindrical coordinates permits dimensionality reduction from 3D to 2D in rotational flows like jets. The numerical framework is demonstrated and validated on several hydrodynamic stability methods ranging from classical linear theory of laminar flows to state-of-the-art non -modal approaches that are applicable to turbulent mean flows. The examples include linear stability, resolvent, and wavemaker analyses of cylinder flow at Reynolds numbers ranging from 47 to 180, and resolvent and wavemaker analyses of the self -similar flat -plate boundary layer at a Reynolds number as well as the turbulent mean of a high -Reynolds -number transonic jet at Mach number 0.9. All previously -known results are found in close agreement with the literature. Finally, the resolvent -based wavemaker analyses of the Blasius boundary layer and turbulent jet flows offer new physical insight into the modal and non -modal growth in these flows.
Keywords:
RBF-FD
Polyharmonic splines
Polynomial augmentation
Linear stability theory
Navier-Stokes
Wavemaker
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