LOW MACH NUMBER FLOWS

A new preconditioning technique is developed to solve the Navier-Stokes equations in both subsonic and supersonic regimes in a uniform manner. The technique can be implemented to high-order approximations.

Number of iterations required to diminish the norm of the residual to 10^-6	Evolution of the norm of residual for different values of preconditioning parameter β

1. Utyuzhnikov, S.V., Vasil'evskii, S.A., Konyukhov, A.V., Rudenko, D.V., Kolesnikov, A.F., and G.S.R. Sarma, "Numerical modelling subsonic and supersonic inductive plasma flows", Proc. of ECCOMAS CFD Conference, Swansea, UK, 2001.

2. Utyuzhnikov, S.V., Konyukhov, A.V., and Vasil’evskii, S.A., Rudenko D.V., and Chazot O., “Simulation of sub- & supersonic flows in inductive plasmatrons”, AIAA J., 2004, V.42, N9, pp. 1871-1877.