Development and Application of an Incompressible Strand Solver

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is an ever-increasing component of the naval design and analysis process. Most current high-fidelity CFD methods used by the US Navy require body-fitted volume grids, which are time-consuming and depend on seasoned engineers with significant grid generation experience. Automated grid generation using a strand gridding approach is a relatively new concept that could transform the role of higher fidelity CFD within the Navy's design and analysis process. The HPCMP CREATE-SH team seeks to expand the compressible strand solver under development as part of the HPCMP CREATE-AV effort to incompressible flow problems for applications of interest to the Navy. The completed incompressible strand solver would allow quicker turnaround time for experienced CFD engineers while allowing more naval architects to use higher fidelity CFD as a part of the overall design process. The incompressible strand solver is a new development of the HPCMP CREATE-SH Hydro team, and this work will demonstrate the solver on validation cases of naval interest.