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As the finite element method (FEM) and the finite volume method (FVM), both their traditional and high-order variants, continue their proliferation into various applied engineering disciplines, adaptive mesh refinement and optimization strategies have increased in their importance when solving real-world computational fluid mechanics applications. The post-processing and visualization of the resulting flow fields present two significant analysis and visualization challenges. The first challenge is the handling of elemental continuity, which is often only C 0 continuous (in continuous Galerkin methods) or piecewise discontinuous (in discontinuous Galerkin methods). The second challenge is that, depending on the flow regime and the geometric configurations for which adaptive meshing strategies are used, the meshes generated are often highly anisotropic. The (uniform knot) line-SIAC (L-SIAC) filter has been proposed as a way of handling elemental continuity issues in an accuracy-conserving manner with the added benefit of casting the data in a smooth context even if the representation is element discontinuous. In this paper, we demonstrate that the state-of-the-art adaptive L-SIAC filter, designed for mildly anisotropic meshes, suffers degradation in the quality of the post-processed solution when applied to the types of highly anisotropic meshes produced through adaptive mesh refinement and optimization. Hence, a new Non-Uniform Knot (NUK) L-SIAC filter is proposed that automatically conforms to the underlying mesh anisotropy. We demonstrate that the new filter behaves similarly to the adaptive L-SIAC filter when applied to uniform and mildly anisotropic meshes, and furthermore we show the superiority of the NUK L-SIAC filter when applied to highly anisotropic meshes. The newly formulated filter is applied to 2D canonical scalar fields and used to visualize 2D and 3D fluid flow simulation results. • This study analyzes and visualizes principle and derived fields from FEM and FVM methods used over highly anisotropic meshes with element length ratios of up to 1000:1. • A new Non-Uniform Knot (NUK) L-SIAC filter is proposed to address issues with the adaptive L-SIAC filter on highly anisotropic meshes. • The NUK L-SIAC filter performs similarly to the adaptive L-SIAC filter on uniform and mildly anisotropic meshes but outperforms it on highly anisotropic meshes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We propose arbitrary high-order discontinuous Galerkin (DG) schemes that are designed based on a first-order hyperbolic advection–diffusion formulation of the target governing equations. We present, in details, the efficient construction of the proposed high-order schemes (called DG-H), and show that these schemes have the same number of global degrees-of-freedom as comparable conventional high-order DG schemes, produce the same or higher order of accuracy solutions and solution gradients, are exact for exact polynomial functions, and do not need a second-derivative diffusion operator. We demonstrate that the constructed high-order schemes give excellent quality solution and solution gradients on irregular triangular elements. We also construct a Weighted Essentially Non-Oscillatory (WENO) limiter for the proposed DG-H schemes and apply it to discontinuous problems. We also make some accuracy comparisons with conventional DG and interior penalty schemes. A relative qualitative cost analysis is also reported, which indicates that the high-order schemes produce orders of magnitude more accurate results than the low-order schemes for a given CPU time. Furthermore, we show that the proposed DG-H schemes are nearly as efficient as the DG and Interior-Penalty (IP) schemes as these schemes produce results that are relatively at the same error level for approximately a similar CPU time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a multi-dimensional high-order discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method in an arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian (ALE) formulation to simulate flows over variable domains with moving and deforming meshes. It is an extension of the gas-kinetic DG method proposed by the authors for static domains (X. Ren et al., 2015 [22] ). A moving mesh gas kinetic DG method is proposed for both inviscid and viscous flow computations. A flux integration method across a translating and deforming cell interface has been constructed. Differently from the previous ALE-type gas kinetic method with piecewise constant mesh velocity at each cell interface within each time step, the mesh velocity variation inside a cell and the mesh moving and rotating at a cell interface have been accounted for in the finite element framework. As a result, the current scheme is applicable for any kind of mesh movement, such as translation, rotation, and deformation. The accuracy and robustness of the scheme have been improved significantly in the oscillating airfoil calculations. All computations are conducted in a physical domain rather than in a reference domain, and the basis functions move with the grid movement. Therefore, the numerical scheme can preserve the uniform flow automatically, and satisfy the geometric conservation law (GCL). The numerical accuracy can be maintained even for a largely moving and deforming mesh. Several test cases are presented to demonstrate the performance of the gas-kinetic DG-ALE method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]