Abstract
This note extends previous work that used the pressure correction method SIMPLE as a preconditioner to solve two-dimensional unsteady phase change problems. Here we examine the impact of using SIMPLE as a smoother to multigrid for such problems.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 121-126 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Journal of Computational Physics |
| Volume | 223 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Apr 10 2007 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Funding
This work was performed under US government contract DE-AC52-06NA25396 for Los Alamos National Laboratory, which is operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS) for the US Department of Energy (LA-UR-06-2600).
Keywords
- Geometric multigrid
- Newton-Krylov
- Phase change convection
- SIMPLE smoother