An explicit meshless point collocation solver for incompressible Navier-Stokes equations

Abstract: We present a strong form, meshless point collocation explicit solver for the numerical solution of the transient, incompressible, viscous Navier-Stokes (N-S) equations in two dimensions. We numerically solve the governing flow equations in their stream function-vorticity formulation. We use a uniform Cartesian embedded grid to represent the flow domain. We compute the spatial derivatives using the Meshless Point Collocation (MPC) method. We verify the accuracy of the numerical scheme for commonly-used benchmark problems including lid-driven cavity flow, flow over a backward-facing step and vortex shedding behind a cylinder. We have examined the applicability of the proposed scheme by considering flow cases with complex geometries, such as flow in a duct with cylindrical obstacles, flow in a bifurcated geometry, and flow past complex-shaped obstacles. Our method offers high accuracy and excellent computational efficiency as demonstrated by the verification examples, while maintaining a stable time step comparable to that used in unconditionally stable implicit methods.