High order conservative differencing for viscous terms and the application to vortex-induced vibration flows

A new set of conservative 4th-order central finite differencing schemes for all the viscous terms of compressible Navier–Stokes equations are proposed and proved in this paper. These schemes are used with a 5th-order WENO scheme for inviscid flux and the stencil width of the central differencing scheme is designed to be within that of the WENO scheme. The central differencing schemes achieve the maximum order of accuracy in the stencil. This feature is important to keep the compactness of the overall discretization schemes and facilitate the boundary condition treatment. The algorithm is used to simulate the vortex-induced oscillations of an elastically mounted circular cylinder. The numerical results agree favorably with the experiment.     

Generalized finite compact difference scheme for shock/complex flowfield interaction

A class of generalized high order finite compact difference schemes is proposed for shock/vortex, shock/boundary layer interaction problems. The finite compact difference scheme takes the region between two shocks as a compact stencil. The high order WENO fluxes on shock stencils are used as the internal boundary fluxes for the compact scheme. A lemma based on the property of smoothness estimators on a 5-points stencil is given to detect the shock position. There is no free parameter introduced to switch the compact scheme and the WENO scheme. Some numerical experiments are given and they demonstrate that the present scheme has low dissipation due to the compact central differencing scheme used in the smooth regions.     

An adaptive central-upwind weighted essentially non-oscillatory scheme

In this work, an adaptive central-upwind 6th-order weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) scheme is developed. The scheme adapts between central and upwind schemes smoothly by a new weighting relation based on blending the smoothness indicators of the optimal higher order stencil and the lower order upwind stencils. The scheme achieves 6th-order accuracy in smooth regions of the solution by introducing a new reference smoothness indicator. A number of numerical examples suggest that the present scheme, while preserving the good shock-capturing properties of the classical WENO schemes, achieves very small numerical dissipation.     

气相爆轰高阶中心差分-WENO组合格式自适应网格方法

研究一种高阶中心差分-WENO组合格式,并采用自适应网格方法进行二维和三维气相爆轰波的数值模拟.采用ZND爆轰模型的控制方程为包含化学反应源项的Euler方程组.组合格式在大梯度区采用WENO格式捕捉间断,在光滑区采用高阶中心差分格式提高计算效率.采用一种基于流场结构特征的自适应网格.计算结果,表明这种方法同时具有高精度、高分辨率和高效率的特点.     

An Eulerian–Lagrangian WENO finite volume scheme for advection problems

We develop a locally conservative Eulerian–Lagrangian finite volume scheme with the weighted essentially non-oscillatory property (EL–WENO) in one-space dimension. This method has the advantages of both WENO and Eulerian–Lagrangian schemes. It is formally high-order accurate in space (we present the fifth order version) and essentially non-oscillatory. Moreover, it is free of a CFL time step stability restriction and has small time truncation error. The scheme requires a new integral-based WENO reconstruction to handle trace-back integration. A Strang splitting algorithm is presented for higher-dimensional problems, using both the new integral-based and pointwise-based WENO reconstructions. We show formally that it maintains the fifth order accuracy. It is also locally mass conservative. Numerical results are provided to illustrate the performance of the scheme and verify its formal accuracy.     

Balanced finite volume WENO and central WENO schemes for the shallow water and the open-channel flow equations

The goal of this work is to extend finite volume WENO and central WENO schemes to the hyperbolic balance laws with geometrical source term and spatially variable flux function. In particular, we apply proposed schemes to the shallow water and the open-channel flow equations where the source term depends on the channel geometry. For obtaining stable numerical schemes that are free of spurious oscillations, it becomes crucial to use the decomposed source term evaluation, which maintains the balancing between the flux gradient and the source term. In addition, the open-channel flow equations contain spatially variable flux function. The appropriate definitions of the terms that arise in the source term decomposition, in combination with the Roe approximate Riemann solver that includes the spatial derivative of the flux function, lead to the finite volume WENO scheme that satisfies the exact conservation property – the property of preserving the quiescent flow exactly. When the central WENO schemes are applied, additional reformulations are introduced for the transition from the staggered values to the nonstaggered ones and vice versa by using the WENO reconstruction procedure. The proposed central WENO schemes also preserve the quiescent flow, but only in prismatic channels. In various test problems the obtained balanced schemes show improvements in comparison with the standard versions of the proposed type schemes, as well as with some other first- and second-order numerical schemes.     

A systematic methodology for constructing high-order energy stable WENO schemes

A third-order Energy Stable Weighted Essentially Non-Oscillatory (ESWENO) finite difference scheme developed by the authors of this paper [N.K. Yamaleev, M.H. Carpenter, Third-order energy stable WENO scheme, J. Comput. Phys. 228 (2009) 3025–3047] was proven to be stable in the energy norm for both continuous and discontinuous solutions of systems of linear hyperbolic equations. Herein, a systematic approach is presented that enables “energy stable” modifications for existing WENO schemes of any order. The technique is demonstrated by developing a one-parameter family of fifth-order upwind-biased ESWENO schemes including one sixth-order central scheme; ESWENO schemes up to eighth order are presented in the Appendix. We also develop new weight functions and derive constraints on their parameters, which provide consistency, much faster convergence of the high-order ESWENO schemes to their underlying linear schemes for smooth solutions with arbitrary number of vanishing derivatives, and better resolution near strong discontinuities than the conventional counterparts.     

Finite volume schemes of very high order of accuracy for stiff hyperbolic balance laws

In this article, we propose a new class of finite volume schemes of arbitrary accuracy in space and time for systems of hyperbolic balance laws with stiff source terms. The new class of schemes is based on a three stage procedure. First a high-order WENO reconstruction procedure is applied to the cell averages at the current time level. Second, the temporal evolution of the reconstruction polynomials is computed locally inside each cell using the governing equations. In the original ENO scheme of Harten et al. and in the ADER schemes of Titarev and Toro, this time evolution is achieved via a Taylor series expansion where the time derivatives are computed by repeated differentiation of the governing PDE with respect to space and time, i.e. by applying the so-called Cauchy–Kovalewski procedure. However, this approach is not able to handle stiff source terms. Therefore, we present a new strategy that only replaces the Cauchy–Kovalewski procedure compared to the previously mentioned schemes. For the time-evolution part of the algorithm, we introduce a local space–time discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element scheme that is able to handle also stiff source terms. This step is the only part of the algorithm which is locally implicit. The third and last step of the proposed ADER finite volume schemes consists of the standard explicit space–time integration over each control volume, using the local space–time DG solutions at the Gaussian integration points for the intercell fluxes and for the space–time integral over the source term. We will show numerical convergence studies for nonlinear systems in one space dimension with both non-stiff and with very stiff source terms up to sixth order of accuracy in space and time. The application of the new method to a large set of different test cases is shown, in particular the stiff scalar model problem of LeVeque and Yee [R.J. LeVeque, H.C. Yee, A study of numerical methods for hyperbolic conservation laws with stiff source terms, Journal of Computational Physics 86 (1) (1990) 187–210], the relaxation system of Jin and Xin [S. Jin, Z. Xin, The relaxation schemes for systems of conservation laws in arbitrary space dimensions, Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 48 (1995) 235–277] and the full compressible Euler equations with stiff friction source terms.     

A high-order accurate hybrid scheme using a central flux scheme and a WENO scheme for compressible flowfield analysis

A high-order accurate hybrid central-WENO scheme is proposed. The fifth order WENO scheme [G.S. Jiang, C.W. Shu, Efficient implementation of weighted ENO schemes, J. Comput. Phys. 126 (1996) 202–228] is divided into two parts, a central flux part and a numerical dissipation part, and is coupled with a central flux scheme. Two sub-schemes, the WENO scheme and the central flux scheme, are hybridized by means of a weighting function that indicates the local smoothness of the flowfields. The derived hybrid central-WENO scheme is written as a combination of the central flux scheme and the numerical dissipation of the fifth order WENO scheme, which is controlled adaptively by a weighting function. The structure of the proposed hybrid central-WENO scheme is similar to that of the YSD-type filter scheme [H.C. Yee, N.D. Sandham, M.J. Djomehri, Low-dissipative high-order shock-capturing methods using characteristic-based filters, J. Comput. Phys. 150 (1999) 199–238]. Therefore, the proposed hybrid scheme has also certain merits that the YSD-type filter scheme has. The accuracy and efficiency of the developed hybrid central-WENO scheme are investigated through numerical experiments on inviscid and viscous problems. Numerical results show that the proposed hybrid central-WENO scheme can resolve flow features extremely well.     

A class of finite difference schemes with low dispersion and controllable dissipation for DNS of compressible turbulence

In this paper, a class of finite difference schemes which achieves low dispersion and controllable dissipation in smooth region and robust shock-capturing capabilities in the vicinity of discontinuities is presented. Firstly, a sufficient condition for semi-discrete finite difference schemes to have independent dispersion and dissipation is derived. This condition enables a novel approach to separately optimize the dissipation and dispersion properties of finite difference schemes and a class of schemes with minimized dispersion and controllable dissipation is thus obtained. Secondly, for the purpose of shock-capturing, one of these schemes is used as the linear part of the WENO scheme with symmetrical stencils to constructed an improved WENO scheme. At last, the improved WENO scheme is blended with its linear counterpart to form a new hybrid scheme for practical applications. The proposed scheme is accurate, flexible and robust. The accuracy and resolution of the proposed scheme are tested by the solutions of several benchmark test cases. The performance of this scheme is further demonstrated by its application in the direct numerical simulation of compressible turbulent channel flow between isothermal walls.     

Hybrid weighted essentially non-oscillatory schemes with different indicators

A key idea in finite difference weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) schemes is a combination of lower order fluxes to obtain a higher order approximation. The choice of the weight to each candidate stencil, which is a nonlinear function of the grid values, is crucial to the success of WENO schemes. For the system case, WENO schemes are based on local characteristic decompositions and flux splitting to avoid spurious oscillation. But the cost of computation of nonlinear weights and local characteristic decompositions is very high. In this paper, we investigate hybrid schemes of WENO schemes with high order up-wind linear schemes using different discontinuity indicators and explore the possibility in avoiding the local characteristic decompositions and the nonlinear weights for part of the procedure, hence reducing the cost but still maintaining non-oscillatory properties for problems with strong shocks. The idea is to identify discontinuity by an discontinuity indicator, then reconstruct numerical flux by WENO approximation in discontinuous regions and up-wind linear approximation in smooth regions. These indicators are mainly based on the troubled-cell indicators for discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method which are listed in the paper by Qiu and Shu (J. Qiu, C.-W. Shu, A comparison of troubled-cell indicators for Runge–Kutta discontinuous Galerkin methods using weighted essentially non-oscillatory limiters, SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing 27 (2005) 995–1013). The emphasis of the paper is on comparison of the performance of hybrid scheme using different indicators, with an objective of obtaining efficient and reliable indicators to obtain better performance of hybrid scheme to save computational cost. Detail numerical studies in one- and two-dimensional cases are performed, addressing the issues of efficiency (less CPU time and more accurate numerical solution), non-oscillatory property.     

An improved weighted essentially non-oscillatory scheme for hyperbolic conservation laws

In this article we develop an improved version of the classical fifth-order weighted essentially non-oscillatory finite difference scheme of [G.S. Jiang, C.W. Shu, Efficient implementation of weighted ENO schemes, J. Comput. Phys. 126 (1996) 202–228] (WENO-JS) for hyperbolic conservation laws. Through the novel use of a linear combination of the low order smoothness indicators already present in the framework of WENO-JS, a new smoothness indicator of higher order is devised and new non-oscillatory weights are built, providing a new WENO scheme (WENO-Z) with less dissipation and higher resolution than the classical WENO. This new scheme generates solutions that are sharp as the ones of the mapped WENO scheme (WENO-M) of Henrick et al. [A.K. Henrick, T.D. Aslam, J.M. Powers, Mapped weighted essentially non-oscillatory schemes: achieving optimal order near critical points, J. Comput. Phys. 207 (2005) 542–567], however with a 25% reduction in CPU costs, since no mapping is necessary. We also provide a detailed analysis of the convergence of the WENO-Z scheme at critical points of smooth solutions and show that the solution enhancements of WENO-Z and WENO-M at problems with shocks comes from their ability to assign substantially larger weights to discontinuous stencils than the WENO-JS scheme, not from their superior order of convergence at critical points. Numerical solutions of the linear advection of discontinuous functions and nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws as the one dimensional Euler equations with Riemann initial value problems, the Mach 3 shock–density wave interaction and the blastwave problems are compared with the ones generated by the WENO-JS and WENO-M schemes. The good performance of the WENO-Z scheme is also demonstrated in the simulation of two dimensional problems as the shock–vortex interaction and a Mach 4.46 Richtmyer–Meshkov Instability (RMI) modeled via the two dimensional Euler equations.     

A High-Order WENO Finite Difference Scheme for the Equations of Ideal Magnetohydrodynamics

We present a high-order accurate weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) finite difference scheme for solving the equations of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). This scheme is a direct extension of a WENO scheme, which has been successfully applied to hydrodynamic problems. The WENO scheme follows the same idea of an essentially non-oscillatory (ENO) scheme with an advantage of achieving higher-order accuracy with fewer computations. Both ENO and WENO can be easily applied to two and three spatial dimensions by evaluating the fluxes dimension-by-dimension. Details of the WENO scheme as well as the construction of a suitable eigen-system, which can properly decompose various families of MHD waves and handle the degenerate situations, are presented. Numerical results are shown to perform well for the one-dimensional Brio–Wu Riemann problems, the two-dimensional Kelvin–Helmholtz instability problems, and the two-dimensional Orszag–Tang MHD vortex system. They also demonstrate the importance of maintaining the divergence free condition for the magnetic field in achieving numerical stability. The tests also show the advantages of using the higher-order scheme. The new 5th-order WENO MHD code can attain an accuracy comparable with that of the second-order schemes with many fewer grid points.     

Multi-domain Fourier-continuation/WENO hybrid solver for conservation laws

We introduce a multi-domain Fourier-continuation/WENO hybrid method (FC–WENO) that enables high-order and non-oscillatory solution of systems of nonlinear conservation laws, and which enjoys essentially dispersionless, spectral character away from discontinuities, as well as mild CFL constraints (comparable to those of finite difference methods). The hybrid scheme employs the expensive, shock-capturing WENO method in small regions containing discontinuities and the efficient FC method in the rest of the computational domain, yielding a highly effective overall scheme for applications with a mix of discontinuities and complex smooth structures. The smooth and discontinuous solution regions are distinguished using the multi-resolution procedure of Harten [J. Comput. Phys. 115 (1994) 319–338]. We consider WENO schemes of formal orders five and nine and a FC method of order five. The accuracy, stability and efficiency of the new hybrid method for conservation laws is investigated for problems with both smooth and non-smooth solutions. In the latter case, we solve the Euler equations for gas dynamics for the standard test case of a Mach three shock wave interacting with an entropy wave, as well as a shock wave (with Mach 1.25, three or six) interacting with a very small entropy wave and evaluate the efficiency of the hybrid FC–WENO method as compared to a purely WENO-based approach as well as alternative hybrid based techniques. We demonstrate considerable computational advantages of the new FC-based method, suggesting a potential of an order of magnitude acceleration over alternatives when extended to fully three-dimensional problems.     

Positivity-preserving high order finite difference WENO schemes for compressible Euler equations

In Zhang and Shu (2010) [20], Zhang and Shu (2011) [21] and Zhang et al. (in press) [23], we constructed uniformly high order accurate discontinuous Galerkin (DG) and finite volume schemes which preserve positivity of density and pressure for the Euler equations of compressible gas dynamics. In this paper, we present an extension of this framework to construct positivity-preserving high order essentially non-oscillatory (ENO) and weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) finite difference schemes for compressible Euler equations. General equations of state and source terms are also discussed. Numerical tests of the fifth order finite difference WENO scheme are reported to demonstrate the good behavior of such schemes.     

A comparative study of the performance of high-resolution non-oscillating advection schemes in the context of the motion induced by mixed region in a stratified fluid

The problem of a two-dimensional fully mixed region collapsing in continuously density-stratified medium is considered. This article deals with the numerical treatment of the advective terms in the Navier-Stokes equations in the Oberbeck-Boussinesq approximation. Comparisons are performed between the upwind scheme, flux-limiter schemes, namely, Minmod, Superbee, Van Leer, and Monotonized Centred (MC), the monotone adaptive stencil schemes, namely, ENO3 and SMIF, and weighted stencil scheme WENO5. We used laboratory experimental data of Wu as a benchmark test to compare performance of different numerical approaches. It is found that the flux-limiter schemes have the smallest numerical diffusion. The WENO5 scheme describes more accurately the width of collapse region variation with time. All considered schemes give a realistic pattern of internal gravity waves generated by collapse region.     

High-order well-balanced schemes and applications to non-equilibrium flow

The appearance of the source terms in modeling non-equilibrium flow problems containing finite-rate chemistry or combustion poses additional numerical difficulties beyond that for solving non-reacting flows. A well-balanced scheme, which can preserve certain non-trivial steady state solutions exactly, may help minimize some of these difficulties. In this paper, a simple one-dimensional non-equilibrium model with one temperature is considered. We first describe a general strategy to design high-order well-balanced finite-difference schemes and then study the well-balanced properties of the high-order finite-difference weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) scheme, modified balanced WENO schemes and various total variation diminishing (TVD) schemes. The advantages of using a well-balanced scheme in preserving steady states and in resolving small perturbations of such states will be shown. Numerical examples containing both smooth and discontinuous solutions are included to verify the improved accuracy, in addition to the well-balanced behavior.     

黏性激波管的有限体积WENO格式数值模拟

本文采用OpenFOAM软件下实现的一种可实现任意阶数,可应用于非结构网格的有限体积WENO格式对黏性激波管问题进行模拟.模拟中对流项离散采用3阶精度、4阶精度该类WENO格式,网格形式采用结构网格和三角形非结构网格.结果表明,采用该类格式,三角形非结构网格的算精度、效率优于结构网格,3阶精度格式计算效率优于4阶精度....     

分辨率优化的混合WENO格式

为提高有限差分格式的分辨率,利用傅里叶分析对WENO格式进行色散及耗散优化,并给出优化的线性权重.用优化后的WENO格式与保单调格式（MP）进行加权混合,得到新的加权混合WENO格式（H-WENO）.通过一维激波管问题、Shu-Osher问题及二维双Mach反射问题及R-T不稳定性问题对格式进行数值测试.结果显示,新格式具有强健的激波捕捉能力和对小尺度波结构的高分辨率,与原WENO格式相比改进明显.     

A local directional ghost cell approach for incompressible viscous flow problems with irregular boundaries

An immersed boundary method for the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations in irregular domains is developed using a local ghost cell approach. This method extends the solution smoothly across the boundary in the same direction as the discretization it will be used for. The ghost cell value is determined locally for each irregular grid cell, making it possible to treat both sharp corners and thin plates accurately. The time stepping is done explicitly using a second order Runge–Kutta method. The spatial derivatives are approximated by finite difference methods on a staggered, Cartesian grid with local grid refinements near the immersed boundary. The WENO scheme is used to treat the convective terms, while all other terms are discretized with central schemes. It is demonstrated that the spatial accuracy of the present numerical method is second order. Further, the method is tested and validated for a number of problems including uniform flow past a circular cylinder, impulsively started flow past a circular cylinder and a flat plate, and planar oscillatory flow past a circular cylinder and objects with sharp corners, such as a facing square and a chamfered plate.