Proceedings of the 10th Convention of the
European Acoustics Association
Forum Acusticum 2023


Politecnico di Torino
Torino, Italy
September 11 - 15, 2023





Session: A16-01: Numerical and computational acoustics - Part II
Date: Thursday 14 September 2023
Time: 09:00 - 09:20
Title: Discontinuous Galerkin methods for the acoustic conservation equations with application to aeroacoustic
Author(s): J. Heinz, TU Wien, Getreidemarkt 9, 1060 Wien, Austria
M. Kaltenbacher, Institute of Fundamentals and Theory in Electrical Eng., TU Graz, Inffeldgasse 18, 8010 Graz, Austria
Pages: 4173-4180
DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.61782/fa.2023.0285
PDF: https://dael.euracoustics.org/confs/fa2023/data/articles/000285.pdf
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Abstract

The acoustic conservation equations are a subset of the compressible flow equations and describe the generation and propagation of acoustic waves by the two acoustic primary variables: acoustic pressure and acoustic particle velocity. Therefore, the equations (an exact reformulation of the APE-2) can be natively used in the context of hybrid aero-acoustic. In order to achieve a stable finite element (FE) approximation, these two physical quantities have to be defined in different Sobolev spaces to fulfill the Ladyzhenskaya-Babuska-Brezzi condition. We choose the second possibility, i.e., the Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method, which enforces coupling between elements via numerical fluxes in surface integrals only and thus has advantages regarding computational efficiency. We present a high-order formulation in space and time that yields optimal convergence rates and provide implementation details in the context of hybrid aero-acoustics. Furthermore, the application to practical aero-acoustic cases will demonstrate the developed DG approach high accuracy and high computational efficiency.