A unified Quasi-Spectral Viscosity (QSV) approach to shock capturing and large-eddy simulation

TL;DR

The paper introduces a novel Quasi-Spectral Viscosity (QSV) method that unifies shock capturing and large-eddy simulation within a single high-order finite-difference framework, demonstrating superior performance in various flow scenarios.

Contribution

The QSV approach uniquely combines shock capturing and sub-filter scale modeling using a spectral-like dissipation term based on residual filter operations.

Findings

QSV effectively captures shocks in various test cases.

QSV outperforms previous eddy-viscosity closures.

QSV unifies shock capturing and LES capabilities successfully.

Abstract

The Quasi-Spectral Viscosity (QSV) method is a novel closure for a high-order finite-difference discretization of the filtered compressible Navier-Stokes equations capable of unifying dynamic sub-filter scale (SFS) modeling and shock capturing under a single mathematical framework. Its innovation lies in the introduction of a physical-space implementation of a spectral-like SFS dissipation term by leveraging residuals of filter operations, achieving two goals: (1) estimating the energy of the resolved solution near the grid cutoff; (2) imposing a plateau-cusp shape to the spectral distribution of the added dissipation. The QSV approach has been tested in a variety of flows to showcase its capability to act interchangeably as: a shock capturing method, in the Shu-Osher, shock/vortex or shock/wall interactions problems; or as a SFS closure, in subsonic Taylor Green Vortex (TGV), and supersonic/hypersonic turbulent channel flows. QSV performs well compared to previous eddy-viscosity closures and shock capturing methods in such test cases. In a supersonic TGV flow, a case which exhibits shock/turbulence interactions, QSV alone outperforms the simple superposition of separate numerical treatments for SFS turbulence and shocks. QSV's combined capability of simulating shocks and turbulence independently, as well as simultaneously, effectively achieves the unification of shock capturing and Large-Eddy Simulation.