Local moving least square - one-dimensional IRBFN technique: part 11 - unsteady incompressible viscous flows

Abstract

In this study, local moving least square - one dimensional integrated radial basis function network (LMLS-1D-IRBFN) method is presented and demonstrated with the solution of time-dependent problems such as Burgers' equation, unsteady flow past a square cylinder in a horizontal channel and unsteady flow past a circular cylinder. The present method makes use of the partition of unity concept to combine the moving least square (MLS) and one-dimensional integrated radial basis function network (1D-IRBFN) techniques in a new approach. This approach offers the same order of accuracy as its global counterpart, the 1D-IRBFN method, while the system matrix is more sparse than that of the 1D-IRBFN, which helps reduce the computational cost significantly. For fluid flow problems, the diffusion terms are discretised by using LMLS-1D-IRBFN method, while the convection terms are explicitly calculated by using 1D-IRBFN method. The present numerical procedure is combined with a domain decomposition technique to handle largescale problems. The numerical results obtained are in good agreement with other published results in the literature.