Scientists and engineers in a wide range of physical disciplines, such as mechanics, medicine, physical cosmology, nano-technology, etc., employ transient computational analysis to solve governing equations that are too difficult to solve analytically. Many of these computational disciplines require accurate transient analyses. The temporal differencing solver developed in this project will serve as an important aid for these researchers to obtain high temporal accuracy with a reasonable amount of computational effort.
Many NASA scientists and engineers are involved in the development and use of advanced numerical analysis codes for applications in physics, engineering, biotechnology, etc. This project will develop and deliver a tool for incorporating implicit higher order differencing into these computational codes, allowing high order temporal solutions without developing a new solver. Potential CFD applications include acoustics, combustion (including combustion instability), and turbulence.
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