PEGASUS 5: An Automated Preprocessor for Overset-Grid Computational Fluid Dynamics

An all new, automated version of the PEGASUS software has been developed and tested. PEGASUS provides the hole-cutting and connectivity information between overlapping grids and is used as the final part of the grid-generation process for overset-grid computational fluid dynamics approaches. The new PEGASUS code (Version 5) has many new features: automated hole cutting, a projection scheme for fixing small discretization errors in overset surfaces, more efficient interpolation search methods using an alternating digital tree and a stencil-jumping scheme, hole-size optimization based on adding additional layers of fringe points, and an automatic restart capability. The new code has also been parallelized using the message-passing interface standard. The parallelization performance provides efficient speedup of the execution time by an order of magnitude, and up to a factor of 30 for very large problems. The results of two example cases are presented: a three-element high-lift airfoil and a complete Boeing 777-200 aircraft in a high-lift landing configuration