NESC0651 SOLA-SURF.

SOLA-SURF, 2-D Plane, Axisymmetric, Incompressible Flow Navier Stokes Equation for Transient

NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM, COMPUTER, DESCRIPTION OF PROBLEM OR FUNCTION, METHOD OF SOLUTION, RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM, TYPICAL RUNNING TIME, UNUSUAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM, AUXILIARIES, STATUS, REFERENCES, REQUIREMENTS, LANGUAGE, OPERATING SYSTEM UNDER WHICH PROGRAM IS EXECUTED, OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS, NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHORS, MATERIAL, CATEGORIES

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1. NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM: SOLA-SURF.

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2. COMPUTERS

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Program name	Package id	Status	Status date
SOLA-SURF	NESC0651/04	Tested	09-MAR-1999

Machines used:

Package ID	Orig. computer	Test computer
NESC0651/04	IBM PC	PC Pentium II 400

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3. DESCRIPTION OF PROBLEM OR FUNCTION

SOLA and SOLA-SURF are numerical solution algorithms for transient fluid flows. SOLA is for incompressible fluid flows without free surfaces. SOLA-SURF, an extension of the SOLA code, permits a free surface or curved rigid boundary (free-slip) to be located across the top or bottom of the fluid region.

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4. METHOD OF SOLUTION

SOLA uses a finite difference technique, based on the marker-and-cell (MAC) method, to solve the Navier-Stokes equations for an incompressible fluid in two-dimensional plane or axisymmetric coordinates. Boundaries of the rectangular computing region can be chosen as (1) rigid walls with free-slip or no-slip tangential velocities, (2) specified inflow or outflow boundaries, (3) continuative outflow boundaries, or (4) periodic boundaries. Internal walls and obstacles or sources and sinks can be added by inserting additional boundary conditions in a special section of the code reserved for this purpose.

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5. RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM

The surfaces used in SOLA-SURF must be definable by single-valued functions, for example, y=h(x,t) for the top surface and y=hb(x,t) for the bottom surface. Also, the slope of the surface must not exceed the cell aspect ratio, deltay/deltax.

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6. TYPICAL RUNNING TIME

The SOLA-SURF test problem required 15 seconds of CP time on the CDC7600 to run to a problem time of 10 (50 cycles).

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The test case took about 16 hours on our PC.

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7. UNUSUAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM

The basic solution algorithm contained in the SOLA code can serve as a foundation for developing other codes. For example, a scalar transport equation for density (or temperature) can be added to investigate buoyancy- driven flows and flows of stratified fluids.

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8. RELATED OR AUXILIARY PROGRAMS: RELATED AND AUXILIARY PROGRAMS

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9. STATUS

Package ID	Status date	Status
NESC0651/04	09-MAR-1999	Tested at NEADB

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10. REFERENCES

C.W. Hirt, B.D. Nichols, and N.C. Romero
SOLA- A Numerical Solution Algorithm for Transient Fluid Flows
LA-5852, April 1975, and Addendum, December 1975, Revised March 1977.

NESC0651/04, included references:

- C.W. Hirt, B.D. Nichols, and N.C. Romero:
  SOLA- A Numerical Solution Algorithm for Transient Fluid Flows
  LA-5852, UC-34 and UC-79d (April 1975).
- B.D. Nichols:
  SOLA-SURF Sample Test Problem
  Addendum to LA-5852 (December 18, 1975)
- SOLA/SOLA-SURF, NESC No. 651, Description of DGA Plotting Routine
  NESC Note 79-66 (August 27, 1979).

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11. HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS: MACHINE REQUIREMENTS

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12. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE(S) USED

Package ID	Computer language
NESC0651/04	FORTRAN-90

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13. OPERATING SYSTEM UNDER WHICH PROGRAM IS EXECUTED: SCOPE.

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14. OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS

SOLA and SOLA-SURF call a number of LASL subroutines - DATE1, CLOCK1, and several film output routines. These will have to be replaced by the user for his environment.

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15. NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHORS

                 C. W. Hirt, B. D. Nichols, and N. C. Romero
                 Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
                 P. O. Box 1663
                 Los Alamos, New Mexico U.S.A. 87544

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                Dr. Fabrice PELESTOR
                Ministere de la Defense DGA
                DCN - CTSN/MDTC
                B.P. 28
                83800 TOULON NAVAL
                FRANCE

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16. MATERIAL AVAILABLE

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SOLA_PC.FOR SOLA-VOF source file
DONNEES.NS Input file

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17. CATEGORIES