Title

Multidimensional Finite-Element Particle Tracking Method for Solving Complex Transient Flow Problems

Authors

Authors

H. Suk;G. T. Yeh

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Abbreviated Journal Title

J. Hydrol. Eng.

Keywords

COMPUTATION; ALGORITHM; MODELS; Engineering, Civil; Environmental Sciences; Water Resources

Abstract

This paper proposes a particle tracking technique for applying the Eulerian-Lagrangian localized adjoint method or the Eulerian-Lagrangian method to solve transport equations in a rapidly changing unsteady flow. The proposed particle tracking technique uses a linear temporal interpolation of velocity to avoid the error introduced when using a stepwise temporal approximation of the velocity, which has been adopted in many existing particle tracking techniques. Numerical experiments were carried out on several example problems to demonstrate the superior accuracy and efficiency of the proposed particle tracking technique over Cheng's and Pollock's methods. The numerical results show that the use of a linear temporal interpolation of velocity can allow an increase in time step size without causing a significant decrease in accuracy, particularly under a complicated transient flow or a rapidly changing velocity field with time.

Journal Title

Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

Volume

14

Issue/Number

7

Publication Date

1-1-2009

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

759

Last Page

766

WOS Identifier

WOS:000267054700012

ISSN

1084-0699

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