A review of vortex methods and their applications: From creation to recent advances

C Mimeau, I Mortazavi - Fluids, 2021 - mdpi.com
This review paper presents an overview of Vortex Methods for flow simulation and their
different sub-approaches, from their creation to the present. Particle methods distinguish …

High-fidelity modeling of multirotor aerodynamic interactions for aircraft design

EJ Alvarez, A Ning - AIAA Journal, 2020 - arc.aiaa.org
Electric aircraft technology has enabled the use of multiple rotors in novel concepts for urban
air mobility. However, multirotor configurations introduce strong aerodynamic and …

Stable vortex particle method formulation for meshless large-eddy simulation

EJ Alvarez, A Ning - AIAA Journal, 2024 - arc.aiaa.org
A novel formulation of the vortex particle method (VPM) is developed for large-eddy
simulation (LES) in a meshless scheme that is numerically stable. A new set of VPM …

Advances in viscous vortex methods—meshless spatial adaption based on radial basis function interpolation

LA Barba, A Leonard, CB Allen - International Journal for …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Vortex methods have a history as old as finite differences. They have since faced difficulties
stemming from the numerical complexity of the Biot–Savart law, the inconvenience of adding …

FLOWUnsteady: an interactional aerodynamics solver for multirotor aircraft and wind energy

EJ Alvarez, J Mehr, A Ning - AIAA Aviation 2022 Forum, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-3218. vid The ability to accurately
and rapidly assess unsteady interactional aerodynamics is a shortcoming and bottleneck in …

Petascale turbulence simulation using a highly parallel fast multipole method on GPUs

R Yokota, LA Barba, T Narumi, K Yasuoka - Computer Physics …, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper reports large-scale direct numerical simulations of homogeneous-isotropic fluid
turbulence, achieving sustained performance of 1.08 petaflop/s on gpu hardware using …

Aerodynamic performance and flow mechanism of 3D flapping wing using discrete vortex method

R Kumar, SS Padhee, D Samanta - Journal of Fluids and Structures, 2024 - Elsevier
In this work, we have performed numerical simulations of the flapping motion of a
rectangular wing in a three-dimensional flow field using the discrete vortex method (DVM) …

The Full non-linear Vortex Tube-Vorton Method: the pre-stall condition

JC Pimentel-Garcia - Advances in Aerodynamics, 2024 - Springer
The present hybrid vortex tube-vorton method is based entirely on the Full Multi-wake Vortex
Lattice Method (FMVLM) concepts, which means detaching vorticity with precise vortex …

Numerical simulation of a one-dimensional flexible filament mimicking anguilliform mode of swimming using discrete vortex method

S Chakravarty, D Samanta - Physical Review Fluids, 2021 - APS
The article discusses the numerical simulation of swimming dynamics of a one-dimensional
flexible filament in inviscid conditions using the discrete vortex method (DVM). The DVM is …

Neural vortex method: from finite lagrangian particles to infinite dimensional eulerian dynamics

S Xiong, X He, Y Tong, Y Deng, B Zhu - Computers & Fluids, 2023 - Elsevier
In fluid analysis, there has been a long-standing problem: lacking a rigorous mathematical
tool to map from a continuous flow field to finite discrete particles, hurdling the Lagrangian …