An immersed boundary method with formal second-order accuracy and reduced numerical viscosity

Ming Chih Lai, Charles S. Peskin

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Abstract

A formally second-order accurate immersed boundary method is presented and tested in this paper. We apply this new scheme to simulate the flow past a circular cylinder and study the effect of numerical viscosity on the accuracy of the computation by comparing the numerical results with those of a first-order method. The numerical evidence shows that the new scheme has less numerical viscosity and is therefore a better choice for the simulation of high Reynolds number flows with immersed boundaries.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)705-719
Number of pages15
JournalJournal of Computational Physics
Volume160
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - May 20 2000

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Numerical Analysis
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
  • General Physics and Astronomy
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computational Mathematics
  • Applied Mathematics

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