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Progress in Grid Generation: From Chimera to DRAGON GridsHybrid grids, composed of structured and unstructured grids, combines the best features of both. The chimera method is a major stepstone toward a hybrid grid from which the present approach is evolved. The chimera grid composes a set of overlapped structured grids which are independently generated and body-fitted, yielding a high quality grid readily accessible for efficient solution schemes. The chimera method has been shown to be efficient to generate a grid about complex geometries and has been demonstrated to deliver accurate aerodynamic prediction of complex flows. While its geometrical flexibility is attractive, interpolation of data in the overlapped regions - which in today's practice in 3D is done in a nonconservative fashion, is not. In the present paper we propose a hybrid grid scheme that maximizes the advantages of the chimera scheme and adapts the strengths of the unstructured grid while at the same time keeps its weaknesses minimal. Like the chimera method, we first divide up the physical domain by a set of structured body-fitted grids which are separately generated and overlaid throughout a complex configuration. To eliminate any pure data manipulation which does not necessarily follow governing equations, we use non-structured grids only to directly replace the region of the arbitrarily overlapped grids. This new adaptation to the chimera thinking is coined the DRAGON grid. The nonstructured grid region sandwiched between the structured grids is limited in size, resulting in only a small increase in memory and computational effort. The DRAGON method has three important advantages: (1) preserving strengths of the chimera grid; (2) eliminating difficulties sometimes encountered in the chimera scheme, such as the orphan points and bad quality of interpolation stencils; and (3) making grid communication in a fully conservative and consistent manner insofar as the governing equations are concerned. To demonstrate its use, the governing equations are discretized using the newly proposed flux scheme, AUSM+, which will be briefly described herein. Numerical tests on representative 2D inviscid flows are given for demonstration. Finally, extension to 3D is underway, only paced by the availability of the 3D unstructured grid generator.
Document ID
19970031503
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Technical Memorandum (TM)
Authors
Liou, Meng-Sing (NASA Lewis Research Center Cleveland, OH United States)
Kao, Kai-Hsiung (Ohio Aerospace Inst. Cleveland, OH United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
August 1, 1994
Subject Category
Aerodynamics
Report/Patent Number
E-9071
NAS 1.15:106709
ICOMP-94-19
NASA-TM-106709
Report Number: E-9071
Report Number: NAS 1.15:106709
Report Number: ICOMP-94-19
Report Number: NASA-TM-106709
Accession Number
97N28636
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NCC3-233
PROJECT: RTOP 505-62-52
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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