Implementation of dual time stepping and GMRES of implicit gas-kinetic scheme for unsteady flow simulations

TL;DR

This paper introduces a dual time-stepping strategy combined with GMRES for implicit gas-kinetic schemes, significantly accelerating unsteady flow simulations across various flow regimes with acceptable accuracy.

Contribution

It develops an implicit gas-kinetic scheme with dual time-stepping and GMRES, including viscous flux Jacobian computation, enhancing unsteady flow simulation efficiency.

Findings

Effective acceleration of unsteady flow simulations

Successful application to flows around bluff bodies and airfoils

Applicable to laminar, turbulent, incompressible, and compressible flows

Abstract

A dual time-stepping strategy of gas-kinetic scheme for the simulation of unsteady flows is introduced in this work. The dual time-stepping strategy is always used in the approaches of unsteady flows, and the ability of dual time-stepping to accelerate the computation with acceptable error tolerance is evident. In our paper, we adopt the techniques of dual time-stepping methods for implicit gas-kinetic scheme to simulate the unsteady flows, which is very popular for the numerical methods based on the Navier-Stokes equations. It is carried out by (a) solving the gas-kinetic scheme in finite volume method; (b) obtaining the inviscid flux Jacobian by Roe scheme; (c) involving the computation of viscous flux Jacobian which is not mentioned in the previous implicit gas-kinetic schemes; (d) approximating the linear system of pseudo steady state by generalized minimal residual algorithm (GMRES). The explicit gas-kinetic scheme has been proved to be an accurate approach for both the steady and unsteady flows, and the implicit gas-kinetic scheme is also be developed to accelerate the convergence of steady state. The dual time-stepping method proposed in our study is of great importance to the computations of unsteady flows. Several numerical cases are performed to evaluate the behavior of dual time stepping strategy of gas-kinetic scheme. The incompressible flow around blunt bodies (stationary circular cylinder and square cylinder) and the transonic buffet on the NACA0012 airfoil are simulated to demonstrate the overall performance of the proposed method which is applicable to the fluid flows from laminar to turbulent and from incompressible to compressible.