Tutorial 7 - IMEX Schemes

The files for this tutorial can be found in “examples/tutorial_7”.

Governing Equations

This tutorial will solve the same governing equations as Tutorial 6 - Solving the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations (2D), but use an IMEX scheme to handle the nonlinearity in the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. The governing equations are split up into nonlinear terms (in this case the convection term) which are treated explicitly, and linear terms which are treated implicitly. For more details on the implementation of IMEX schemes in OpenCMP see Time Discretization Schemes.

The Main Configuration Files

There are still two main configuration files: “config_IC” for the Stokes solve and “config” for the incompressible Navier-Stokes solve. “config_IC” is identical to that used in Tutorial 7 - IMEX Schemes.

“config” differs in the solver section. The linearization method is now “IMEX” and the Picard iteration parameters are no longer needed.

[SOLVER]
solver = default
preconditioner = default
linearization_method = IMEX

The time discretization scheme must also be changed to an IMEX scheme. For this tutorial the Euler IMEX time discretization scheme is used, which is a combination of implicit and explicit Euler.

[TRANSIENT]
transient = True
scheme = euler IMEX
time_range = 0.0, 1.0
dt = 1e-2

Running the Simulation

The simulation can be run from the command line; within the directory examples/tutorial_7/ execute python3 -m opencmp config.

The simulation can be run from the command line; within the directory “examples/tutorial_7/:

Run the Stokes solve by calling python3 -m opencmp config_IC
Run the incompressible Navier-Stokes solve by calling python3 -m opencmp config.

As usual, the progress of the transient simulation can be tracked from the print outs at each time step. Once the simulation has finished the results can be visualized in ParaView. They should be identical to those obtained in Tutorial 7 - IMEX Schemes.