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Old   August 31, 2009, 07:33
Default What's the causes of numerical oscillation?
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What's the causes of numerical oscillation?

By taking the Fourier transformation, I find an oscillation in my solution with scaled wavenumber 3.14.

How such things can happen? I am using centered difference and RK method.

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Old   September 3, 2009, 00:00
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I am not sure about the scaled wave number. Is it with respect to the cell width?

Anyway, I will try to provide a few points for cause of oscillations.

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In CFD, oscillations mostly occur at discontinuities. While solving, the numerical schemes try to fit the solution with a function, the degree of which would determine the order of the underlying scheme. Now, in the presence of discontinuities, a function approximation near the discontinuous solution would result in the so called Gibbs phenomenon. This becomes much more serious with higher order schemes.

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Oscillations can also occur due to the flux approximations. A less diffusive HLLC scheme would have more oscillations than the diffusive Lax Friedrich flux.

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Depending on the stability of numerical scheme, the (unstable) schemes could support certain modes of oscillations which can grow in time. A weakly unstable scheme can provide a better CFL limit, but would need some way of dissipating the unstable waves. For a central difference scheme, this would not be the case.
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Old   May 7, 2012, 01:38
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Hi to everybody,
I just want to know that does mesh size also play role in numerical oscillations? I have used tetrahedral mesh of size 7mm with size function attached to the airfoil which i have to study was of size 5mm which gradually increases merges with tetrahedral grid which as i have aforesaid was of size 7mm. I have applied unsteady DES and Standard k-omega model both are showing oscillations in converging solution. Thus i want to ask whether mesh size affects the oscillations in solutions.
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