Small-scale inhibiting characteristics of residual and solution filtering
share
Residual and solution filtering procedures are studied with respect to inhibiting the accumulation of small-scale (i.e., high wavenumber) content. Assessing each method in terms of an “equivalent residual equation" reveals fundamental differences in their behaviors, such as how the underlying solution can be constrained to a target filter width. The residual filtering (RF) approach paired with a dissipative filter kernel is shown to restrict scale generation in the fluid equations via dispersive effects; meanwhile, solution filtering (SF) – and artificial dissipation (AD), by extension – operates through dissipative mechanisms and actively attenuates high wavenumber content. Discrete filters (i.e., the Top-hat and implicit Tangent schemes) are analyzed in terms of their response characteristics and their associated effects on reducing small-scale activity when paired with the RF versus SF approaches. Linear theoretical assessments (e.g., von Neumann analysis) are shown to successfully characterize the fundamental behaviors of the methods in non-linear settings, as observed through canonical test cases based on 1D viscous Burgers, 2D Euler, 3D Navier-Stokes equations.
READ FULL TEXT