Conservative interpolation on unstructured polyhedral meshes: An extension of the supermesh approach to cell-centered finite-volume variables

Abstract

A method is presented for conservatively transferring, or remapping, cell-centered variable fields from one mesh to another with second-order accuracy. The method is generally applicable to any polyhedral source or target mesh. Like the work of Farrell et al. [1], which was designed for finite-element computations, the proposed methodology uses a logical supermesh consisting of the intersections of polyhedra from both meshes. The resulting transfer process is well-suited for finite-volume methods that rely on cell-centered variables. The accuracy and efficacy of the new remapping process is demonstrated with numerical experiments and a computational fluid dynamics test.