Unsteady 2-D Compressible Flow in Unbounded Domain

Abstract

An unsteady isentropic flow model is presented to calculate the two-dimensional flow field in an arbitrarily closed region or in an open fluid domain. In the open domain, a unique boundary condition is implemented to simulate the infinite character of the open space. The characteristics-like method presented herein is shown to be robust over the entire subsonic flow range and, with the implementation of the infinite boundary, provides numerical results in agreement with analytic solutions and experimental data.