Huadian Technology ›› 2017, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (10): 25-29.

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Spectral vanishing viscosity method combined with spectral element method for convectiondiffusion equation

  

  1. Huadian Jiangsu Energy Company Limited Jurong Power Plant, Zhenjiang 212400, China
  • Published:2017-10-25

Abstract:

The Chebyshev spectral element method combined with spectral vanishing viscosity method is used to solve the onedimensional convectiondiffusion equation, aiming at the instability phenomenon of spectral element method for convectiondiffusion equation with high Reynolds number. The stability of the method is deduced with character analysis, and the feasibility of the proposed scheme is verified by a numerical example. The influence of spectral vanishing viscosity parameters on stability and accuracy is discussed. It is demonstrated that the stability and accuracy at high Reynolds number of spectral vanishing viscosity method are obviously improved compared with that of spectal element method. Larger spectal vanishing viscosity term is beneficial for extending the stable region and smaller viscosity term is beneficial for improving the accuracy at the condition of stable computation. The size of the viscosity term could be appropriately set to guarantee the stability and obtain numerical solution with high accuracy.

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