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- Subject: MASTER'S THESIS PRESENTATION
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- Keywords: Simon Sivyer Clift, grad student, Dept. Comp. Sci. Univ. Waterloo
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:38:54 GMT
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- DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
- UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
- SEMINAR ACTIVITIES
-
- MASTER'S THESIS PRESENTATION
-
- -Thursday, January 28, 19993
-
- Simon Sivyer Clift, graduate student, Dept. Comp. Sci.,
- Univ. of Waterloo will speak on "Linear and Non-Linear
- Methods for the Incompressible Navier-Stokes
- Equations."
-
- TIME: 4:00-5:00 p.m.
-
- ROOM: DC 1304
-
- ABSTRACT
-
- The Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous
- fluid flow in the primitive variable form require a
- great deal of computer time and storage for numerical
- solution. Recent studies have used Newton's method to
- solve the discretized, non-linear, algebraic system
- arising from these equations. Either direct methods,
- or iterative methods can be used to solve the resulting
- linear systems, but iterative methods have been
- demonstrated to be faster and generally require less
- storage.
-
- A two-stage non-linear method using the slowly
- converging, but robust ``frozen coefficient'' method,
- and full Newton iteration, will be demonstrated to be
- superior to the use of either method alone. An
- iterative matrix solution based on CGSTAB acceleration,
- and a preconditioner based on the frozen coefficient
- matrix will be shown to be efficient, and more
- effective than direct methods. Issues of ordering and
- preconditioning will be addressed, and it will be shown
- that completely general matrix methods can be used
- efficiently.
-
- Matrix ordering, problem domain anisotropy, and finite
- volume cell anisotropy will be shown to have profound
- effects on the efficiency of the solution method. A
- mixed form of non-linear iteration, using Newton
- iteration over part of the problem domain, and frozen
- coefficient iteration over the rest, will be outlined.
-
- The main method to be outlined solves incompressible
- fluid flow to arbitrary precision, and has a time
- 3/2
- complexity measured to be less than the O(N )
-
- expected for an iterative method in two dimensions.
-
- This presentation is being held in conjunction with the
- Scientific Computation Group.
-