Computational Fluid

Dynamics
Assignment # 2

SUBMITTED TO:
DR IMRAN AKHTAR

SUBMITTED BY:
SHAKIR HUSSAIN CHAUDHRY
150512011
AERO-CFD

Introduction:
2-D Laplace equation is given as
2 2
+
=0
2 2
In order to solve the equation the 2-D Laplace equation is converted into parabolic form.

+
=

The Jacobi Iteration Method:

FTCS formulation of parabolic equation is given by:
As x=y, then above equation becomes,

,
0.25
2 2
So in order to reduce number of iteration we will take both values equal to 0.25.

The Gauss- Seidel Iteration Method:

Gauss-Seidel method take into account of the values at point i-1 and j-1 for interval k+1 and
values at point i+1 and j+1 at interval k and take average of them. Due to values at k+1 interval,
Gauss- Seidel method converges faster than Jacobi iteration method. Equation for Gauss Seidel
method is given below.

As beta equal to 1

=
Point Successive Over Relaxation Method:
If we introduce a factor w in right hand sides of both Jacobi iteration method and Gauss Seidel
method for faster convergence or stable convergence then they becomes point successive over
relaxation methods. GS PSOR is given as below. (beta equal to 1)

Value of range from 0 to 2.

Results for Jacobi PSOR methods:
Different values of were tried with the help of code written in Matlab as shown in the table
below.

0.1
0.15
0.2
0.25
0.3
0.35
0.4
0.45
0.5
0.55
0.6
0.65
0.7

No of Iterations
133
103
74
63
52
46
40
36
33
30
28
26
24

0.75
0.8
0.85
0.9
0.95
1.0
Above 1

22
21
20
19
18
17
unstable

Results for GS PSOR methods:

A similar code was written for Gauss Seidel PSOR scheme. Different values of were tried and
the results are tabulated below.

0.1
0.15
0.2
0.25
0.3
0.4
0.5
0.6
0.7
0.8
0.9
1.0
1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4
1.5
1.6
1.7
1.8

No of Iterations
127
98
70
58
48
37
31
28
26
24
22
21
20
19
18
18
18
21
27
46

Discussion:
The optimum value for Jacobi scheme was found out to be 1.00 at which results with sufficient
accuracy were achieved in 17 iteration. All the values of above 1 produced unstable results
which is because Jacobi PSOR is using FTCS and FTCS basic stability criterion (courant number
<= 0.25) is broken for all values of above 1.
In case of Gauss Seidel PSOR schemes the optimum value of was found out to be 1.3, 1.4 or
1.5. At all these values results were achieved in 18 iterations. If value of was increased or
decreased from the values specified then the solution with same convergence criteria was
reached in more number of iterations.
The boundary condition at y=0 was sinusoidal and its frequency was not captured well with the
mesh used. Mesh with this boundary condition should have been more refined. It is because of
this reason that there was no advantage of using Gauss Seidel PSOR scheme and both the
schemes took almost same number of iteration to reach convergence criteria.