Abstract
Numerical simulations of flow problems with moving boundaries commonly require the solution of the fluid equations on unstructured and deformable dynamic meshes. In this paper, we present a unified theory for deriving Geometric Conservation La.ws (GCLs) for such problems. We consider several popular discretization methods for the spatial approximation of the flow equations including the Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) finite volume and finite element schemes, and space-time stabilized finite element formulations. We show that, except for the case of the space-time discretization method, the GCLs impose import ant constraints on the algorithms employed for time-integrating the semi-discrete equations governing the fluid and dynamic mesh motions. We address the impa.ct of theses constraints on the solution of coupled aeroelastic problems, and highlight the importance of the GCLs with an illustration of their effect on the computation of the transient aeroelastic response of a flat panel in transonic flow.
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