An Accurate Compact Treatment of Pressure for Colocated Variables

Emmanuel Dormy

U.C.L.A./I.G.P.P. 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles Ca 90095-1567

Journal of Computational Physics, 151, 676-683 (1999)

Abstract. We propose a new scheme for the pressure treatment in computations of incompressible-flow using a colocated grid arrangement. To avoid oscillations associated with the sparse non-compact stencil, we introduce a compact fourth-order equivalent of this stencil and study its advantages over the classical second order averaging procedure.

Key Words: compact differencing, incompressible Navier-Stokes equation, velocity-pressure decoupling.