Consistent Velocity–Pressure Coupling for Second-Order <i>L</i>²-Penalty and Direct-Forcing Methods

Abstract

The present work studies the interactions between fictitious-domain methods on structured grids and velocity–pressure coupling for the resolution of the Navier–Stokes equations. The pressure-correction approaches are widely used in this context but the corrector step is generally not modified consistently to take into account the fictitious domain. A consistent modification of the pressure-projection for a high-order penalty (or penalization) method close to the Ikeno–Kajishima modification for the Immersed Boundary Method is presented here. Compared to the first-order correction required for the L 2 -penalty methods, the small values of the penalty parameters do not lead to numerical instabilities in solving the Poisson equation. A comparison of the corrected rotational pressure-correction method with the augmented Lagrangian approach which does not require a correction is carried out.

Keywords

• Navier–Stokes equations
• fictitious domain
• velocity–pressure coupling
• augmented Lagrangian
• pressure-correction methods
• projection methods