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High-order conservative reconstruction schemes for finite volume methods in cylindrical and spherical coordinates
High-order reconstruction schemes for the solution of hyperbolic conservation
laws in orthogonal curvilinear coordinates are revised in the finite volume
approach. The formulation employs a piecewise polynomial approximation to the
zone-average values to reconstruct left and right interface states from within
a computational zone to arbitrary order of accuracy by inverting a
Vandermonde-like linear system of equations with spatially varying
coefficients. The approach is general and can be used on uniform and
non-uniform meshes although explicit expressions are derived for polynomials
from second to fifth degree in cylindrical and spherical geometries with
uniform grid spacing. It is shown that, in regions of large curvature, the
resulting expressions differ considerably from their Cartesian counterparts and
that the lack of such corrections can severely degrade the accuracy of the
solution close to the coordinate origin. Limiting techniques and monotonicity
constraints are revised for conventional reconstruction schemes, namely, the
piecewise linear method (PLM), third-order weighted essentially non-oscillatory
(WENO) scheme and the piecewise parabolic method (PPM).
The performance of the improved reconstruction schemes is investigated in a
number of selected numerical benchmarks involving the solution of both scalar
and systems of nonlinear equations (such as the equations of gas dynamics and
magnetohydrodynamics) in cylindrical and spherical geometries in one and two
dimensions. Results confirm that the proposed approach yields considerably
smaller errors, higher convergence rates and it avoid spurious numerical
effects at a symmetry axis.Comment: 37 pages, 12 Figures. Accepted for publication in Journal of
Compuational Physic
MFC: An open-source high-order multi-component, multi-phase, and multi-scale compressible flow solver
MFC is an open-source tool for solving multi-component, multi-phase, and bubbly compressible flows. It is capable of efficiently solving a wide range of flows, including droplet atomization, shock–bubble interaction, and bubble dynamics. We present the 5- and 6-equation thermodynamically-consistent diffuse-interface models we use to handle such flows, which are coupled to high-order interface-capturing methods, HLL-type Riemann solvers, and TVD time-integration schemes that are capable of simulating unsteady flows with strong shocks. The numerical methods are implemented in a flexible, modular framework that is amenable to future development. The methods we employ are validated via comparisons to experimental results for shock–bubble, shock–droplet, and shock–water-cylinder interaction problems and verified to be free of spurious oscillations for material-interface advection and gas–liquid Riemann problems. For smooth solutions, such as the advection of an isentropic vortex, the methods are verified to be high-order accurate. Illustrative examples involving shock–bubble-vessel-wall and acoustic–bubble-net interactions are used to demonstrate the full capabilities of MFC
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
RAM: A Relativistic Adaptive Mesh Refinement Hydrodynamics Code
We have developed a new computer code, RAM, to solve the conservative
equations of special relativistic hydrodynamics (SRHD) using adaptive mesh
refinement (AMR) on parallel computers. We have implemented a
characteristic-wise, finite difference, weighted essentially non-oscillatory
(WENO) scheme using the full characteristic decomposition of the SRHD equations
to achieve fifth-order accuracy in space. For time integration we use the
method of lines with a third-order total variation diminishing (TVD)
Runge-Kutta scheme. We have also implemented fourth and fifth order Runge-Kutta
time integration schemes for comparison. The implementation of AMR and
parallelization is based on the FLASH code. RAM is modular and includes the
capability to easily swap hydrodynamics solvers, reconstruction methods and
physics modules. In addition to WENO we have implemented a finite volume module
with the piecewise parabolic method (PPM) for reconstruction and the modified
Marquina approximate Riemann solver to work with TVD Runge-Kutta time
integration. We examine the difficulty of accurately simulating shear flows in
numerical relativistic hydrodynamics codes. We show that under-resolved
simulations of simple test problems with transverse velocity components produce
incorrect results and demonstrate the ability of RAM to correctly solve these
problems. RAM has been tested in one, two and three dimensions and in
Cartesian, cylindrical and spherical coordinates. We have demonstrated
fifth-order accuracy for WENO in one and two dimensions and performed detailed
comparison with other schemes for which we show significantly lower convergence
rates. Extensive testing is presented demonstrating the ability of RAM to
address challenging open questions in relativistic astrophysics.Comment: ApJS in press, 21 pages including 18 figures (6 color figures
High-Order Unstructured Lagrangian One-Step WENO Finite Volume Schemes for Non-Conservative Hyperbolic Systems: Applications to Compressible Multi-Phase Flows
In this article we present the first better than second order accurate
unstructured Lagrangian-type one-step WENO finite volume scheme for the
solution of hyperbolic partial differential equations with non-conservative
products. The method achieves high order of accuracy in space together with
essentially non-oscillatory behavior using a nonlinear WENO reconstruction
operator on unstructured triangular meshes. High order accuracy in time is
obtained via a local Lagrangian space-time Galerkin predictor method that
evolves the spatial reconstruction polynomials in time within each element. The
final one-step finite volume scheme is derived by integration over a moving
space-time control volume, where the non-conservative products are treated by a
path-conservative approach that defines the jump terms on the element
boundaries. The entire method is formulated as an Arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian
(ALE) method, where the mesh velocity can be chosen independently of the fluid
velocity.
The new scheme is applied to the full seven-equation Baer-Nunziato model of
compressible multi-phase flows in two space dimensions. The use of a Lagrangian
approach allows an excellent resolution of the solid contact and the resolution
of jumps in the volume fraction. The high order of accuracy of the scheme in
space and time is confirmed via a numerical convergence study. Finally, the
proposed method is also applied to a reduced version of the compressible
Baer-Nunziato model for the simulation of free surface water waves in moving
domains. In particular, the phenomenon of sloshing is studied in a moving water
tank and comparisons with experimental data are provided
Arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian One-Step WENO Finite Volume Schemes on Unstructured Triangular Meshes
In this article we present a new class of high order accurate
Arbitrary-Eulerian-Lagrangian (ALE) one-step WENO finite volume schemes for
solving nonlinear hyperbolic systems of conservation laws on moving two
dimensional unstructured triangular meshes. A WENO reconstruction algorithm is
used to achieve high order accuracy in space and a high order one-step time
discretization is achieved by using the local space-time Galerkin predictor.
For that purpose, a new element--local weak formulation of the governing PDE is
adopted on moving space--time elements. The space-time basis and test functions
are obtained considering Lagrange interpolation polynomials passing through a
predefined set of nodes. Moreover, a polynomial mapping defined by the same
local space-time basis functions as the weak solution of the PDE is used to map
the moving physical space-time element onto a space-time reference element. To
maintain algorithmic simplicity, the final ALE one-step finite volume scheme
uses moving triangular meshes with straight edges. This is possible in the ALE
framework, which allows a local mesh velocity that is different from the local
fluid velocity. We present numerical convergence rates for the schemes
presented in this paper up to sixth order of accuracy in space and time and
show some classical numerical test problems for the two-dimensional Euler
equations of compressible gas dynamics.Comment: Accepted by "Communications in Computational Physics
An improved formulation of the relativistic hydrodynamics equations in 2D Cartesian coordinates
A number of astrophysical scenarios possess and preserve an overall
cylindrical symmetry also when undergoing a catastrophic and nonlinear
evolution. Exploiting such a symmetry, these processes can be studied through
numerical-relativity simulations at smaller computational costs and at
considerably larger spatial resolutions. We here present a new
flux-conservative formulation of the relativistic hydrodynamics equations in
cylindrical coordinates. By rearranging those terms in the equations which are
the sources of the largest numerical errors, the new formulation yields a
global truncation error which is one or more orders of magnitude smaller than
those of alternative and commonly used formulations. We illustrate this through
a series of numerical tests involving the evolution of oscillating spherical
and rotating stars, as well as shock-tube tests.Comment: 19 pages, 9 figure
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