Supercompact multiwavelets for flow field simulation

Abstract

A supercompact multiwavelet scheme for computational fluid dynamics is presented. Beam and Warming's supercompact wavelet method is an appropriate wavelet for fluid simulation data in the sense that it can provide compact support. The compactness of the wavelets avoids unnecessary interaction with remotely located data (e.g. across a shock discontinuity or vortex) and significantly reduces computational data processing time. Thresholding for data compression with the supercompact wavelets is applied based on a covariance vector structure of multiwavelets. The extension of this scheme to three dimensions is analyzed. Numerical tests demonstrate that the analytic advantages actually result in large data compression ratios. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.