To remedy the problem of spurious viscosity several high resolution schemes have been invented [61]. They nearly all consist of piecewise functions of the form
where and
are constants and
and
are defined as (cf. Figure 170,
in which a regular mesh is shown):
and
Substituting Equations (566) and (567) in Equation (565) yields:
For irregular meshes element centers W, P and E may not be aligned Therefore, usually a fictituous aligned position W' is assumed such that (Figure 171):
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(569) |
and used in Equation (568) instead of leading to
For the Modified Smart Scheme, which is implemented in CalculiX, the following relationships are defined:
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(572) |
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(573) |
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(574) |
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(575) |
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(576) |
Notice that by using the resulting equations (570) and (571)
the convective interpolation at face e only depends on element center values
in the neighboring elements P and E. Therefore, these formulas can be used in
a completely irregular mesh. Finally, it is worth noting that if is a
vector field (e.g. the velocity) the above formulas are applied componentwise.