An improved boundary condition at a low grid resolution and Reynolds number

T. Burel, Q. Gu

Published 2018-06-10Version 1

Complex geometries can be easily treated using the well-known full-way and half-way bounce-back rules. However, the accuracy of the full-way bounce-back rule is one order lower than the half-way bounce-back rule. Moreover, when the walls are not aligned with the lattices, the errors increase. Including the collision operator on the walls with the full-way bounce-back rule leads to an improvement of the accuracy of the pressure-drop, but, a loss of momentum is observed on concave corners. We propose to improve the momentum conservation by adding an extrapolation of the density by the inverse distance weighting at concave corners. The technique is shown to give a second-order accuracy at a lower grid resolution, thus, the computational cost can be reduced.