Implicit Quadrature-Free Direct Reconstruction Method for Efficient Scale-Resolving Simulations

The present study develops implicit physical domain-based discontinu-ous Galerkin (DG) methods for efficient scale-resolving simulations on mixed-curved meshes. Implicit methods are essential to handle stiff systems in many scale-resolving simulations of interests in computational science and engineering. The physical domain-based DG method can achieve high-order accuracy using the optimal bases set and preserve the required accuracy on non-affine meshes. When using the quadrature-based DG method, these advantages are overshadowed by severe computational costs on mixed-curved meshes, making implicit scale-resolving simulations unaffordable. To address this issue, the quadrature-free direct reconstruction method (DRM) is ex-tended to the implicit DG method. In this approach, the generalized reconstruction approximates non-linear flux functions directly in the physical domain, making the computing-intensive numerical integrations precomputable at a preprocessing step. The DRM operator is applied to the residual computation in the matrix-free method. The DRM operator can be further extended to the system matrix computation for the matrix-explicit Krylov subspace method and preconditioning. Finally, the A-stable Rosenbrock-type Runge-Kutta methods are adopted to achieve high-order accuracy in time. Extensive verification and validation from the manufactured solution to im-plicit large eddy simulations are conducted. The computed results confirm that the proposed method significantly improves computational efficiency compared to the quadrature-based method while accurately resolving detailed unsteady flow features that are hardly captured by scale-modeled simulations.

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The present study develops implicit physical domain-based discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for efficient scale-resolving simulations on mixed-curved meshes. The proposed method significantly improves computational efficiency compared to the quadrature-based method while accurately resolving detailed unsteady flow features that are hardly captured by scale-modeled simulations.