A discrete projection method for incompressible viscous flow with coriolis force Original Research Article

The paper presents a new discrete projection method for the numerical solution of the Navier–Stokes equations with Coriolis force term. On an algebraic level we interpret one time step of the projection method as an incomplete factorization of the linearized Navier–Stokes system and as the iteration of an Uzawa type algorithm with special preconditioning for the pressure block. This enables us to modify the well-known projection method in a way to account for possibly dominating Coriolis terms. We consider a special multigrid method for solving the velocity subproblems and a modified projection (pressure correction) step. Results of numerical tests are presented for a model problem as well as for 3D flow simulations in stirred tank reactors.