A two-dimensional axisymmetric ray tracing photon Monte Carlo radiative transfer solver is developed. Like all ray tracing Monte Carlo codes, the ray tracing is performed in 3-D, however, arrangements are made to take advantage of the 2-D nature of the problem, to minimize computational time. The solver is designed to be integrated into finite volume hypersonic flow solvers, and is able to resolve the complex spectral properties of such flows to line-by-line accuracy. The solver is then directly integrated into DPLR, a hypersonic flow solver, and closely coupled calculations are performed.
An overset mesh approach is useful for unsteady flow problems which involve components moving relative to each other. Since the generation of a single mesh around all components is prone to mesh stretching due to the relative motion of bodies, using the overset grid methodology, an individual mesh can be generated for each component. In this study, a parallel overset grid assembler was developed to establish connectivity across component meshes. Connectivity information was transferred to the developed parallel flow solver. The assembler uses multiple methods such as alternating digital tree and stencil walking to reduce the time spent on domain connectivity. Both the assembler and solver were partitioned spatially so that overlapping mesh blocks reside in the same partitions. Spatial partitioning was performed using a 3D space partitioning structure, namely octree, to which mesh blocks are registered. The octree was refined adaptively until bins of octree could be evenly distributed to processors. The assembler and solver were tested on a generic helicopter configuration in terms of load balance, scalability, and memory usage.
A solution adaptive structured/unstructured overset grid flow solver with applications to helicopter rotor flows
