A fractional step method for the solution of the compressible Navier-Stokes equations

Abstract

In this paper we present a summary of the splitting technique for both compressible and incompressible flows previously proposed in [22, 23, 7]. Also, we extend it to the case of a fully implicit treatment of the viscous and convective terms of the momentum equations. For incompressible flows, this scheme for a non-standard treatment of the boundary conditions. For compressible flows the continuity equation involves two variables which must be related through the equation of state. Convective terms of the conservation equations to be solved are stabilized by means of a Characteristic – Galerkin scheme. Also, in the presence of shocks some additional dissipation is needed. Both numerical techniques are explained here taking the transport of a scalar quantity as a model problem.