Numerical simulation of the unsteady three-dimensional flow in confined domains crossed by moving bodies

A numerical method devoted to the prediction of unsteady flows in complex domains with moving boundaries is presented. Based on the unsteady Euler equations with source terms to take diffusive effects into account as well as additional mass, momentum or enthalpy sources, it has been specially developed to model the thermal and dynamic behavior of the ambient air inside underground stations in the presence of moving trains. The numerical solution method is a unstructured finite-volume cell-centered scheme using the SIMPLE algorithm coupled with a second-order intermediate time stepping scheme. The spatial discretization is realized with an automatic Cartesian grid generator, complemented by a technique of sliding grids to handle straight moving bodies inside the domain.