Development of a flexible and efficient multigrid-based multiblock flow solver

Abstract

A multigrid-based numerical scheme for solving the Navier-Stokes and Euler equations on block-structured grids is presented for flows over complex aircraft configurations. Self-consistency checks are conducted to ascertain that the multiblock code reproduces previously known solutions from single-block codes by splitting a single-block grid into multiple blocks. The newly-developed multiblock code maintains multigrid performance of an equivalent single-block code.