An enhanced polygonal finite‐volume method for unstructured hybrid meshes

Abstract

SUMMARYIrregular hybrid meshes may excessively distort the node-dual finite-volume discretization. A new scheme is formulated that uses a different type of polygonal control volume. Superior stability of the polygonal scheme over the conventional node-dual scheme is demonstrated on representative irregular hybrid meshes for incompressible viscous flow past a circular cylinder.

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