Large scale urban simulations with FCT

Patnaik, G., Boris, J. P., Grinstein, F. F., Iselin, J. P. and Hertwig, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2483-2675 (2012) Large scale urban simulations with FCT. In: Flux-Corrected Transport: Principles, Algorithms, and Applications. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 91-117. ISBN 9789400740389 doi: 10.1007/978-94-007-4038-9_4

Abstract/Summary

Airborne contaminant transport in cities presents challenging new requirements for CFD. The unsteady flow physics is complicated by very complex geometry, multi-phase particle and droplet effects, radiation, latent and sensible heating effects, and buoyancy effects. Turbulence is one of the most important of these phenomena and yet the overall problem is sufficiently difficult that the turbulence must be included efficiently with an absolute minimum of extra memory and computing time. This paper describes the Monotone Integrated Large Eddy Simulation (MILES) methodology used in NRL's FAST3D-CT simulation model for urban contaminant transport (CT) (see Boris in Comput. Sci. Eng. 4:22--32, 2002 and references therein). We also describe important extensions of the underlying Flux-Corrected Transport (FCT) convection algorithms to further reduce numerical dissipation in narrow channels (streets).