NEWTON–GMRES ALGORITHM APPLIED TO COMPRESSIBLE FLOWS

This paper addresses the resolution of non-linear problems arising from an implicit time discretization in CFD problems. We study the convergence of the Newton–GMRES algorithm with a Jacobian approximated by a finite difference scheme and with restarting in GMRES. In our numerical experiments we observe, as predicted by the theory, the impact of the matrix-free approximations. A second-order scheme clearly improves the convergence in the Newton process.