Optimized sixth‐order monotonicity‐preserving scheme by nonlinear spectral analysis

In this paper, sixth‐order monotonicity‐preserving optimized scheme (OMP6) for the numerical solution of conservation laws is developed on the basis of the dispersion and dissipation optimization and monotonicity‐preserving technique. The nonlinear spectral analysis method is developed and is used for the purpose of minimizing the dispersion errors and controlling the dissipation errors. The new scheme (OMP6) is simple in expression and is easy for use in CFD codes. The suitability and accuracy of this new scheme have been tested through a set of one‐dimensional, two‐dimensional, and three‐dimensional tests, including the one‐dimensional Shu–Osher problem, the two‐dimensional double Mach reflection, and the Rayleigh–Taylor instability problem, and the three‐dimensional direct numerical simulation of decaying compressible isotropic turbulence. All numerical tests show that the new scheme has robust shock capturing capability and high resolution for the small‐scale waves due to fewer numerical dispersion and dissipation errors. Moreover, the new scheme has higher computational efficiency than the well‐used WENO schemes. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A novel weighting switch function for uniformly high‐order hybrid shock‐capturing schemes

Hybrid schemes are very efficient for complex compressible flow simulation. However, for most existing hybrid schemes in literature, empirical problem‐dependent parameters are always needed to detect shock waves and hence greatly decrease the robustness and accuracy of the hybrid scheme. In this paper, based on the nonlinear weights of the weighted essentially non‐oscillatory (WENO) scheme, a novel weighting switch function is proposed. This function approaches 1 with high‐order accuracy in smooth regions and 0 near discontinuities. Then, with the new weighting switch function, a seventh‐order hybrid compact‐reconstruction WENO scheme (HCCS) is developed. The new hybrid scheme uses the same stencil as the fifth‐order WENO scheme, and it has seventh‐order accuracy in smooth regions even at critical points. Numerical tests are presented to demonstrate the accuracy and robustness of both the switch function and HCCS. Comparisons also reveal that HCCS has lower dissipation and less computational cost than the seventh‐order WENO scheme. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Rotor wake capture improvement based on high-order spatially accurate schemes and chimera grids

A high-order upwind scheme has been developed to capture the vortex wake of a helicopter rotor in the hover based on chimera grids. In this paper, an improved fifth-order weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) scheme is adopted to interpolate the higher-order left and right states across a cell interface with the Roe Riemann solver updating inviscid flux, and is compared with the monotone upwind scheme for scalar conservation laws (MUSCL). For profitably capturing the wake and enforcing the period boundary condition, the computation regions of flows are discretized by using the structured chimera grids composed of a fine rotor grid and a cylindrical background grid. In the background grid, the mesh cells located in the wake regions are refined after the solution reaches the approximate convergence. Considering the interpolation characteristic of the WENO scheme, three layers of the hole boundary and the interpolation boundary are searched. The performance of the schemes is investigated in a transonic flow and a subsonic flow around the hovering rotor. The results reveal that the present approach has great capabilities in capturing the vortex wake with high resolution, and the WENO scheme has much lower numerical dissipation in comparison with the MUSCL scheme.     

满足几何守恒律的WENO格式及其应用

对几何守恒律的来源进行了分析,发展了一种满足几何守恒律的WENO格式,并应用于翼型层流分离现象的数值模拟中。为消除网格质量影响,采用守恒型方法计算网格导数,并将标准的WENO格式分解为中心差分部分和数值耗散部分。算例计算结果表明,几何守恒律对高精度有限差分WENO格式计算结果具有重要影响,本文方法能够消除网格导数计算误差,保证来流保持性。将本文方法应用于SD7003翼型层流分离现象的数值模拟中,计算结果与文献中计算及试验数据吻合较好,同时能够精细捕捉小尺度流场结构,准确模拟翼型层流分离现象中的复杂流动过程。     

基于Level Set的多维双曲守恒律标量方程的激波追踪方法

结合四阶CWENO(Cemral Weighted Essentially Non-Oscillatory)格式、四阶NCE(Natural Continuous Extensions)Runge-Kutta法和Level Set方法，很好地处理了一维双曲守恒律标量方程的激波追踪问题。针对二维双曲守恒律标量方程，成功地用五阶WENO格式、非TVD格式的四阶Runge-Kutta方法和Level Set方法进行激波追踪。将所得的数值解与标准的高阶激波捕捉方法所得的数值解进行比较，说明基于Level Set的激波追踪方法的有效性与逐点收敛性。     

Convergence issues in using high‐resolution schemes and lower–upper symmetric Gauss–Seidel method for steady shock‐induced combustion problems

This paper reports numerical convergence study for simulations of steady shock‐induced combustion problems with high‐resolution shock‐capturing schemes. Five typical schemes are used: the Roe flux‐based monotone upstream‐centered scheme for conservation laws (MUSCL) and weighted essentially non‐oscillatory (WENO) schemes, the Lax–Friedrichs splitting‐based non‐oscillatory no‐free parameter dissipative (NND) and WENO schemes, and the Harten–Yee upwind total variation diminishing (TVD) scheme. These schemes are implemented with the finite volume discretization on structured quadrilateral meshes in dimension‐by‐dimension way and the lower–upper symmetric Gauss–Seidel (LU–SGS) relaxation method for solving the axisymmetric multispecies reactive Navier–Stokes equations. Comparison of iterative convergence between different schemes has been made using supersonic combustion flows around a spherical projectile with Mach numbers M = 3.55 and 6.46 and a ram accelerator with M = 6.7. These test cases were regarded as steady combustion problems in literature. Calculations on gradually refined meshes show that the second‐order NND, MUSCL, and TVD schemes can converge well to steady states from coarse through fine meshes for M = 3.55 case in which shock and combustion fronts are separate, whereas the (nominally) fifth‐order WENO schemes can only converge to some residual level. More interestingly, the numerical results show that all the schemes do not converge to steady‐state solutions for M = 6.46 in the spherical projectile and M = 6.7 in the ram accelerator cases on fine meshes although they all converge on coarser meshes or on fine meshes without chemical reactions. The result is based on the particular preconditioner of LU–SGS scheme. Possible reasons for the nonconvergence in reactive flow simulation are discussed.Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A parameter-free ε-adaptive algorithm for improving weighted compact nonlinear schemes

In this paper, we propose a parameter-free algorithm to calculate ε, a parameter of small quantity initially introduced into the nonlinear weights of weighted essentially nonoscillatory (WENO) scheme to avoid denominator becoming zero. The new algorithm, based on local smoothness indicators of fifth-order weighted compact nonlinear scheme (WCNS), is designed in a manner to adaptively increase ε in smooth areas to reduce numerical dissipation and obtain high-order accuracy, and decrease ε in discontinuous areas to increase numerical dissipation and suppress spurious numerical oscillations. We discuss the relation between critical points and discontinuities and illustrate that, when large gradient areas caused by high-order critical points are not well resolved with sufficiently small grid spacing, numerical oscillations arise. The new algorithm treats high-order critical points as discontinuities to suppress numerical oscillations. Canonical numerical tests are carried out, and computational results indicate that the new adaptive algorithm can help improve resolution of small scale flow structures, suppress numerical oscillations near discontinuities, and lessen susceptibility to flux functions and interpolation variables for fifth-order WCNS. The new adaptive algorithm can be conveniently generalized to WENO/WCNS with different orders.     

Robustness of the hybrid DRP‐WENO scheme for shock flow computations

This paper describes a new variant of hybrid scheme that is constructed by a wave‐capturing scheme and a nonoscillatory scheme for flow computations in the presence of shocks. The improved fifth‐order upwind weighted essentially nonoscillatory scheme is chosen to be conjugated with the seven‐point dispersion‐relation‐preserving scheme by means of an adaptive switch function of grid‐point type. The new hybrid scheme can achieve a better resolution than the hybrid scheme which is based on the classical weighted essentially scheme. Ami Harten's multiresolution analysis algorithm is applied to density field for detecting discontinuities and setting point values of the switch function adaptively. Moreover, the tenth‐order central filter is applied in smooth part of the flow field for damping dispersion errors. This scheme can promote overall computational efficiency and yield oscillation‐free results in shock flows. The resolution properties and robustness of the new hybrid scheme are tested in both 1D and 2D linear and nonlinear cases. It performs well for computing flow problems with rich structures of weak/strong shocks and large/small vortices, such as the shock‐boundary layer interaction problem in a shock tube, which illustrates that it is very robust and accurate for direct numerical simulation of gas‐dynamics flows. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Performance study of the multiwavelet discontinuous Galerkin approach for solving the Green-Naghdi equations

This paper presents a multiresolution discontinuous Galerkin (DG) scheme for the adaptive solution of Boussinesq-type equations. The model combines multiwavelet (MW)–based grid adaptation with a DG solver based on the system of fully nonlinear and weakly dispersive Green-Naghdi (GN) equations. The key feature of the adaptation procedure is to conduct a multiresolution analysis using MWs on a hierarchy of nested grids to improve the efficiency of the reference DG scheme on a uniform grid by computing on a locally refined adapted grid. This way, the local resolution level will be determined by manipulating MW coefficients controlled by a single user-defined threshold value. The proposed adaptive multiwavelet DG solver for GN equations is assessed using several benchmark problems related to wave propagation and transformation in nearshore areas. The numerical results demonstrate that the proposed scheme retains the accuracy of the reference scheme, while significantly reducing the computational cost.     

高阶紧致格式分区并行算法

针对超声速多尺度复杂流动问题,发展了一种高精度并行算法。计算格式采用五阶迎风紧致格式,用特征型通量限制方法抑制非物理振荡。在对接边界处采用五阶WENO格式,以保证整个计算域内计算精度一致。通过网格分区和数据交换,在MPI平台实现了并行计算。通过超声速算例对算法进行了验证,并对并行效率和加速比进行了分析。最后,将算法应用于超声速转捩、湍流问题的数值模拟。计算结果表明,提出的算法具有较高的精度和分辨率,对接边界光滑连续,并且并行效率较高,在高超声速湍流流动数值模拟中取得了较好的应用效果。