Abstract:
The objective of this thesis is to develop and test new
procedures for the numerical treatment of the hydrodynamic equations. The
general approach to the studied procedures is based on a functional
approximation underlain by the Moving Least Square method. With
these approximations, discrete equations are set up, both in Eulerian
and Lagrangian description. The practical implementation and testing of
the deduced discretisations is carried out by means of simple test cases.
In the first part of this thesis, the approximations obtained by
the Moving Least Square method are examined for important
characteristics. The probably most important characteristic concerns
the basis functions with respect to which a function is expanded. It
turns out that the basis functions are exactly approximated. This fact
justifies the consistency of the following schemes. In the second part
of this thesis, the Moving Least Square method and the discretisations
resulting from it are presented in three different kinds of schemes.
These include a collocation scheme, a Galerkin scheme and a
Lagrangian scheme. In the collocation scheme, the Moving Least Square
approximations are directly applied to the functions in the considered
differential equations. The results correspond to those of a scheme
using finite differences. In the Galerkin scheme, the weak
formulation of a differential equation is applied. Considering the
deduced discretisations of the hydrodynamic equations, conservation
laws for the total mass, the total momentum and the total energy are obtained.
In the Lagrangian scheme the nodes have an explicit
time dependency. Thus conservation laws for the mass of a
single node as well as for the total momentum and total
energy are obtained. This scheme can therefore be interpreted as a particle method.