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A Newton’s solver for high-order wall distance computation on three-dimensional curved, unstructured meshes

2025· article· en· W4413049770 on OpenAlex
Ehsan Mirzaee, Carl Ollivier‐Gooch

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Bibliographic record

VenueComputers & Fluids · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicComputational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
FundersUniversity of British Columbia Graduate SchoolNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaUniversity of British Columbia
KeywordsPolygon meshSolverComputationGeometryMathematicsComputer scienceApplied mathematicsAlgorithmMathematical optimization

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Accurate wall distance computation is essential in high-order turbulent flow simulations involving complex geometries. This paper presents a new higher-order approach to compute wall distance on three-dimensional, curved, unstructured meshes. The method uses Lagrange interpolation polynomials representing the mesh to formulate an optimization problem whose solution yields the wall distance. The domain is swept from the wall boundaries inward, and the optimization problem is solved for every vertex using Newton’s method. The algorithm is modified for domains with sharp edges, wall corners, or multiple wall boundaries. In problems with non-curved wall boundaries, the method finds the exact wall distance. For curved wall boundaries, when using cubic Lagrange polynomials for the mesh, the method achieves O ( h 4 ) accuracy for the wall distance and O ( h 3 ) accuracy for the normal-to-wall vector. Increasing the accuracy of the Lagrange functions used to define the mesh further improves the method’s order of accuracy. • Introduced a new higher-order wall distance computation method for 3-D curved grids. • Used Lagrange interpolation polynomials to formulate an optimization problem. • Achieved O ( h 4 ) accuracy for wall distance and O ( h 3 ) accuracy for normal vectors. • Adapted the method for cases with sharp edges and multiple wall boundaries. • Demonstrated fast convergence times, suitable for parallel processing.

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