MASTERS DEGREE PROJECT

DEVELOPMENT OF MODIFIED DIFFERENCING SCHEMES IN

CFD

Abhishek Padmasale
12CH30002

Under the guidance of

Prof. Arnab Atta
Dept. of Chemical Engineering
IIT Kharagpur

June 2016 April 2017

AIM OF THE PROJECT

In the project, I propose to develop new differencing schemes which
handle the short comings of the current differencing schemes like false
diffusion and low resolution while maintaining a healthy performance:
resource ratio.
The main focus will be in trying to reduce false diffusion. If a
satisfactory scheme is developed, I then intend to make modifications to
the new scheme to accommodate solutions to other short-comings of
conventional schemes.
The end result of the project will be a scheme or a set of
schemes that will show an improvement when compared to
current differencing schemes.
I intend to complete this project in the following order. Review any
available literature on the given topic, then come up with a differencing
model and test it with known examples. The scheme must then be tested
for boundedness, conservativeness and transportiveness. I would then
proceed to quantify the improvement from the new scheme.
In the first few trials, I prefer to use Java or C to write codes and
Origin Pro to plot graphs. In the coming semester, I would try to import my
code in COMSOL 4.4 and run it.
If the final results are convincing, we can proceed to publish the
work in a journal.

KEY COMPONENTS & TIMELINE OF THE PROJECT

I have divided my project into a number of smaller activities which I
aim to complete in the following due dates.
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Component
Literature Collection
Literature Review
Understanding the requirements in new
scheme
Preliminary Development of Scheme
Mid Sem Exams
Theoretical testing of Scheme
Test for Boundedness etc.
DP Vacations
Testing of Scheme in C or Java
Quantification of improvements (1)*
Half term report submission
MTP Viva I
End Semester Exams & Placements
Quantification of improvements (2)
Importing code in COMSOL 4.4
Mid Sem Exams
Comparing COMSOL Outputs
Evaluating project for publication
Publication process*
MTP Thesis Submission
MTP Viva II

Due Date
14th Aug
24th Aug
31st Aug
11th Sept
22nd Sept
30th Sept
5th Oct
18th Oct
26th Oct
--11th Nov
16th Nov
20th Dec
26th Jan
10th Feb
21st Feb
25th Mar
29th Mar
--~7th April
~12th April

CURRENT WORK
I have finished reading all the relevant research papers that I could
find on the internet on reducing false diffusion in case of convection. I
have also worked up a very crude scheme which eliminated false diffusion

by a good amount but does not satisfy any of the property of a

discretization scheme.
Important references are attached below:

MTP References.zip