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Arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian discontinuous Galerkin schemes with a posteriori subcell finite volume limiting on moving unstructured meshes
We present a new family of high order accurate fully discrete one-step
Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element schemes on moving unstructured
meshes for the solution of nonlinear hyperbolic PDE in multiple space
dimensions, which may also include parabolic terms in order to model
dissipative transport processes. High order piecewise polynomials are adopted
to represent the discrete solution at each time level and within each spatial
control volume of the computational grid, while high order of accuracy in time
is achieved by the ADER approach. In our algorithm the spatial mesh
configuration can be defined in two different ways: either by an isoparametric
approach that generates curved control volumes, or by a piecewise linear
decomposition of each spatial control volume into simplex sub-elements. Our
numerical method belongs to the category of direct
Arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) schemes, where a space-time conservation
formulation of the governing PDE system is considered and which already takes
into account the new grid geometry directly during the computation of the
numerical fluxes. Our new Lagrangian-type DG scheme adopts the novel a
posteriori sub-cell finite volume limiter method, in which the validity of the
candidate solution produced in each cell by an unlimited ADER-DG scheme is
verified against a set of physical and numerical detection criteria. Those
cells which do not satisfy all of the above criteria are flagged as troubled
cells and are recomputed with a second order TVD finite volume scheme. The
numerical convergence rates of the new ALE ADER-DG schemes are studied up to
fourth order in space and time and several test problems are simulated.
Finally, an application inspired by Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) type
flows is considered by solving the Euler equations and the PDE of viscous and
resistive magnetohydrodynamics (VRMHD).Comment: 39 pages, 21 figure
A New Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Method for Directly Solving the Hamilton-Jacobi Equations
In this paper, we improve upon the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for
Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) equation with convex Hamiltonians in (Y. Cheng and C.-W.
Shu, J. Comput. Phys. 223:398-415,2007) and develop a new DG method for
directly solving the general HJ equations. The new method avoids the
reconstruction of the solution across elements by utilizing the Roe speed at
the cell interface. Besides, we propose an entropy fix by adding penalty terms
proportional to the jump of the normal derivative of the numerical solution.
The particular form of the entropy fix was inspired by the Harten and Hyman's
entropy fix (A. Harten and J. M. Hyman. J. Comput. Phys. 50(2):235-269, 1983)
for Roe scheme for the conservation laws. The resulting scheme is compact,
simple to implement even on unstructured meshes, and is demonstrated to work
for nonconvex Hamiltonians. Benchmark numerical experiments in one dimension
and two dimensions are provided to validate the performance of the method
High Order Cell-Centered Lagrangian-Type Finite Volume Schemes with Time-Accurate Local Time Stepping on Unstructured Triangular Meshes
We present a novel cell-centered direct Arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE)
finite volume scheme on unstructured triangular meshes that is high order
accurate in space and time and that also allows for time-accurate local time
stepping (LTS). The new scheme uses the following basic ingredients: a high
order WENO reconstruction in space on unstructured meshes, an element-local
high-order accurate space-time Galerkin predictor that performs the time
evolution of the reconstructed polynomials within each element, the computation
of numerical ALE fluxes at the moving element interfaces through approximate
Riemann solvers, and a one-step finite volume scheme for the time update which
is directly based on the integral form of the conservation equations in
space-time. The inclusion of the LTS algorithm requires a number of crucial
extensions, such as a proper scheduling criterion for the time update of each
element and for each node; a virtual projection of the elements contained in
the reconstruction stencils of the element that has to perform the WENO
reconstruction; and the proper computation of the fluxes through the space-time
boundary surfaces that will inevitably contain hanging nodes in time due to the
LTS algorithm. We have validated our new unstructured Lagrangian LTS approach
over a wide sample of test cases solving the Euler equations of compressible
gasdynamics in two space dimensions, including shock tube problems, cylindrical
explosion problems, as well as specific tests typically adopted in Lagrangian
calculations, such as the Kidder and the Saltzman problem. When compared to the
traditional global time stepping (GTS) method, the newly proposed LTS algorithm
allows to reduce the number of element updates in a given simulation by a
factor that may depend on the complexity of the dynamics, but which can be as
large as 4.7.Comment: 31 pages, 13 figure
A limiter-based well-balanced discontinuous Galerkin method for shallow-water flows with wetting and drying: Triangular grids
A novel wetting and drying treatment for second-order Runge-Kutta
discontinuous Galerkin (RKDG2) methods solving the non-linear shallow water
equations is proposed. It is developed for general conforming two-dimensional
triangular meshes and utilizes a slope limiting strategy to accurately model
inundation. The method features a non-destructive limiter, which concurrently
meets the requirements for linear stability and wetting and drying. It further
combines existing approaches for positivity preservation and well-balancing
with an innovative velocity-based limiting of the momentum. This limiting
controls spurious velocities in the vicinity of the wet/dry interface. It leads
to a computationally stable and robust scheme -- even on unstructured grids --
and allows for large time steps in combination with explicit time integrators.
The scheme comprises only one free parameter, to which it is not sensitive in
terms of stability. A number of numerical test cases, ranging from analytical
tests to near-realistic laboratory benchmarks, demonstrate the performance of
the method for inundation applications. In particular, super-linear
convergence, mass-conservation, well-balancedness, and stability are verified
Implicit High-Order Flux Reconstruction Solver for High-Speed Compressible Flows
The present paper addresses the development and implementation of the first
high-order Flux Reconstruction (FR) solver for high-speed flows within the
open-source COOLFluiD (Computational Object-Oriented Libraries for Fluid
Dynamics) platform. The resulting solver is fully implicit and able to simulate
compressible flow problems governed by either the Euler or the Navier-Stokes
equations in two and three dimensions. Furthermore, it can run in parallel on
multiple CPU-cores and is designed to handle unstructured grids consisting of
both straight and curved edged quadrilateral or hexahedral elements. While most
of the implementation relies on state-of-the-art FR algorithms, an improved and
more case-independent shock capturing scheme has been developed in order to
tackle the first viscous hypersonic simulations using the FR method. Extensive
verification of the FR solver has been performed through the use of
reproducible benchmark test cases with flow speeds ranging from subsonic to
hypersonic, up to Mach 17.6. The obtained results have been favorably compared
to those available in literature. Furthermore, so-called super-accuracy is
retrieved for certain cases when solving the Euler equations. The strengths of
the FR solver in terms of computational accuracy per degree of freedom are also
illustrated. Finally, the influence of the characterizing parameters of the FR
method as well as the the influence of the novel shock capturing scheme on the
accuracy of the developed solver is discussed
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