A stable and efficient hybrid method for aeroacoustic sound generation and propagation

We discuss how to combine the node based unstructured finite volume method widely used to handle complex geometries and nonlinear phenomena with very efficient high order finite difference methods suitable for wave propagation dominated problems. This fully coupled numerical procedure reflects the coupled character of the sound generation and propagation problem. The coupling procedure is based on energy estimates and stability can be guaranteed. Numerical experiments using finite difference methods that shed light on the theoretical results are performed. To cite this article: J. Nordström, J. Gong, C. R. Mecanique 333 (2005).