MOOSE Newsletter (July 2021)

Compressible Navier-Stokes Finite Volume (CNSFV)

Through the navier_stokes module, MOOSE now has the ability to model transonic and supersonic flows using either Harten, Lax, van Leer, Contact (HLLC) or Kurganov-Tadmor discretization strategies for the advective flux. The compressible Euler equations are implemented using the finite volume method. We have also implemented a variety of slope limiters, including van Leer, min-mod, first and second order upwind, central differencing, and QUICK, that can be used when interpolating quantities from cell centroids to faces. We do not recommend this compressible fluid flow implementation for low Mach number flows as results can be overly diffusive when the solution is not smooth, e.g. in high Rayleigh number natural convection simulations.

Bug Fixes and Minor Enhancements

• Minor fixes to links in the documentation, thanks to feedback in #18425

libMesh-level changes

• Mimic stl and boost constructors in our allocators

• Try changing max order for L2 families

• Add LumpedMassMatrix class

• Test custom FE reinit

• $LIBMESH_BENCHMARK selection of benchmarking examples

• RB: skip reinit when there are no DOFs on Elem

• Command-line override of default Metis-vs-Parmetis

• init_names() at more points

• Fix FE side unit tests with –enable-complex

• Begin contains_vertex_of with node equality tests

• chunked_mapvector storage option

• Weaken partitioner_test for SFC on 8+ processors

• Bugfix for PR libmesh/libmesh#2940

• Revert "interior_parent fix on distributed refined multi-elem_dim meshes"

• interior_parent fix on distributed refined multi-elem_dim meshes

• RB EIM update

• Fix for deprecated warning in SLEPc not-quite-3.15

• Use pool allocator in mapvector

• Check for gdb in command line in print_trace when compiling with no gdb backtrace by default