vortex method
 

Hi colleagues:

I am currently doing some readings on vortex method, which is entirely grid-free in the solution domain (similar to BEM).

For those who have worked in this area before, can you recommend any books/papers, that have detailed the numerical implementation of vortex methods?

Thanks in advance.

Re: vortex method
 

Hi, I would say the basic book you can read is the one by Katz and Plotkin. Another interesting book is the one by J. Moran. Luca

Re: vortex method
 

Thanks Luca. I will search for the books to understand more about it.

Luca, what you think about the current status of vortex method? Has it come to a stage that it is mature enough to be accepted as a global computational method for industry?

It is true in a way that flow turbulence can be resolved in an accurate manner, without adopting the turbulence models for Eulerian grid-base methods. However, how is the computational time of Lagrangian vortex method as compared to the conventional Finite-Volume RANS method?

Any comments are welcomed.

Thanks again.

Re: vortex method
 

Sorry, I must admit I read too fastly you previous message, I thought you're talking about panel methods (like vortex lattice for example). Vortex methods are more complex...and I'm completely ignorant about these methods. Luca

Re: vortex method
 

It is okay, Thanks Luca.

Any comments about the current status of vortex method are welcomed.

Re: vortex method
 

There are also good papers of T.Sarpkaya

Sarpkaya, T., (1989), "Computational Methods with Vortices - The 1988 Freeman Scholar Lecture," Journal of Fluids Engineering, ASME lll, No. 1, 5-52

Sarpkaya, T., (1994), "Vortex Element Methods for Flow Simulation," In Advances in Applied Mechanics, (Ed. Th. Wu and A Hutchinson), Vol. 31, 113-247

Re: vortex method
 

Dear Anton:

DO you have the copy of those papers? I have difficulties in getting those. Appreciate if you could send them to my Email: ngkhaiching2000@yahoo.com if any?

Many thanks, Anton

Re: vortex method
 

Google "vortex method". There are two books I know of - by (1) A. Chorin, and (2) G-H Cottet and P. Koumoutsakos. But you can go to the following for intro to various vortex methods:

http://www.edpsciences.org/articlesp...1/contents.htm http://www.edpsciences.org/articlesp.../contents.html

Adrin

Re: vortex method
 

Thanks Adrin..I shall look further into the webpage..

Re: vortex method
 

Hi, i'm not involved in vortex methods but i think that a useful book could be:

Lewis : "Vortex Element Methods For Fluid Dynamic Analysis of Engineering Systems" - Cambridge

At least the second part treats exactly what you mean.

Regards

Re: vortex method
 

Many thanks, Paolo..