Anisotropies occur naturally in CFD where the simulation of small scale physical phenomena, such as boundary layers at high Reynolds numbers, causes the grid to be highly stretched leading to a slow down in convergence of multigrid methods. Several approaches aimed at making multigrid a robust solver have been proposed and analyzed in literature using the scalar diffusion equation. However, they have been rarely applied to solving more complicated models, like the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. This paper contains the first published numerical results of the behavior of two popular robust multigrid approaches (alternating-plane smoothers combined with standard coarsening and plane implicit smoothers combined with semi-coarsening) for solving the 3-D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in the simulation of the driven cavity and a boundary layer over a at plate on a stretched grid. The discrete operator is obtained using a staggered-grid arrangement ofvariables with a nite volume technique and second-order accuracy is achieved using defect correction within the multigrid cycle. Grid size, grid stretching and Reynolds number are the factors considered in evaluating the robustness of the multigrid methods. Both approaches yield large increases in convergence rates over cell-implicit smoothers on stretched grids. The combination of plane implicit smoothers and semi-coarsening was found to be fully robust in the at plate simulation up to Reynolds numbers 106 and the best alternative in the driven cavity simulation for Reynolds

Abstract. This paper presents an e cient parallel multigrid solver for speeding up the computation of a 3-D model that treats the ow ofa viscous uid over a at plate. The main interest of this simulation lies in exhibiting some basic di culties that prevent optimal multigrid e ciencies from being achieved. As the computing platform, we have used Coral, a Beowulf-class system based on Intel Pentium processors and equipped with GigaNet cLAN and switched Fast Ethernet networks. Our study not only examines the scalability ofthe solver but also includes a performance evaluation of Coral where the investigated solver has been used to compare several of its design choices, namely, the interconnection network (GigaNet versus switched Fast-Ethernet) and the node con guration (dual nodes versus single nodes). As a reference, the performance results have been compared with those obtained with the NAS-MG benchmark. Key words. parallel multigrid, Beowulf clusters, block implicit smoothers, semicoarsening Subject classi cation. Computer Science 1. Introduction. Multilevel

This paper presents a full multigrid solver for the simulation of flow over a yawed at plate. The two problems associated with this simulation; boundary layers and entering flows with non-aligned characteristics, have been successfully overcome through the combination of a plane-implicit solver and semicoarsening. In fact, this multigrid algorithm exhibits a textbook multigrid convergence rate, i.e., the solution of the discrete system of equations is obtained in a fixed amount of computational work, independently of the grid size, grid stretching factor and non-alignment parameter. Also, a parallel variant of the smoother based on a four-color ordering of planes is investigated.

Design and implementation of a digital feedback controller for a flow control experiment was performed. The experiment was conducted in a cryogenic pressurized wind tunnel on a generic separated configuration at a chord Reynolds number of 16 million and a Mach number of 0:25. The model simulates the upper surface of a 20% thick airfoil at zero angle-of-attack. A moderate favorable pressure gradient, up to 55% of the chord, is followed by a severe adverse pressure gradient which is relaxed towards the trailing edge. The turbulent separation bubble, behind the adverse pressure gradient, is then reduced by introducing oscillatory flow excitation just upstream of the point of flow separation. The degree of reduction in the separation region can be controlled by the amplitude of the oscillatory excitation. A feedback controller was designed to track a given trajectory for the desired degree of flow reattachment and to improve the transient behavior of the flow system. Closed-loop experiments demonstrated that the feedback controller was able to track step input commands and improve the transient behavior of the open-loop response.

We present a sixth order explicit compact finite difference scheme to solve the three dimensional (3D) convection diffusion equation. We first use multiscale multigrid method to solve the linear systems arising from a 19-point fourth order discretization scheme to compute the fourth order solutions on both the coarse grid and the fine grid. Then an operator based interpolation scheme combined with an extrapolation technique is used to approximate the sixth order accurate solution on the fine grid. Since the multigrid method using a standard point relaxation smoother may fail to achieve the optimal grid independent convergence rate for solving convection diffusion equation with a high Reynolds number, we also implement the plane relaxation smoother in the multigrid solver to achieve better grid independency. Supporting numerical results are presented to demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of the sixth order compact scheme