In this paper, a compact high-order gas-kinetic scheme (GKS) with spectral resolution will be presented and used in the simulation of acoustic and shock waves. For accurate simulation, the numerical scheme is required to have excellent dissipation-dispersion preserving property, while the wave modes, propagation characteristics, and wave speed of the numerical solution should be kept as close as possible to the exact solution of governing equations. For compressible flow simulation with shocks, the numerical scheme has to be equipped with proper numerical dissipation to make a crispy transition in the shock layer. Based on the high-order gas evolution model, the GKS provides a time accurate solution at a cell interface, from which both time accurate flux function and the time evolving flow variables can be obtained. The GKS updates explicitly both cell-averaged conservative flow variables and the cell-averaged gradients by applying Gauss-theorem along the boundary of the control volume. Based on the cell-averaged flow variables and cell-averaged gradients, a reconstruction with compact stencil can be obtained. With the same stencil of a second-order scheme, a reconstruction up to 8th-order spacial accuracy can be constructed, which include the nonlinear and linear reconstruction for the non-equilibrium and equilibrium states respectively. The GKS unifies the nonlinear and linear reconstruction through a time evolution process at a cell interface from the non-equilibrium state to an equilibrium one. In the region between these two limits, the contribution from nonlinear and linear reconstructions depends on the weighting functions of $\exp(-Δt/τ)$ and $(1-\exp(-Δt /τ))$, where $Δt$ is the time step and $τ$ is the particle collision time, which is enhanced in the shock region. As a result, both shock and acoustic wave can be captured accurately in GKS.
We propose a set of quick and easy approximate characteristic variables for higher-order reconstructions of shock capturing schemes for magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). Numerical experiments suggest that the reconstructions using the approximate characteristic variables are more robust than those using the conservative or primitive variables, while their computational efficiencies are comparable. The approximate characteristic variables are simple compared to the full characteristic variables for MHD, and can be a practical choice of reconstruction variables.
A new approach to prevent spurious behavior caused by conventional shock-capturing schemes when solving stiff detonation waves problems is introduced in the present work. Due to smearing of discontinuous solution by the excessive numerical dissipation, conventional shock-capturing schemes have difficulties to obtain the correct location of detonation front without enough grids resolution. To overcome the excessive numerical errors around discontinuities by traditional discretized schemes used in non-reacting high speed compressible flow, we introduce a new shock-capturing scheme in which besid…
We present a new finite difference shock-capturing scheme for hyperbolic equations on static uniform grids. The method provides selectable high-order accuracy by employing a kernel-based Gaussian Process (GP) data prediction method which is an extension of the GP high-order method originally introduced in a finite volume framework by the same authors. The method interpolates Riemann states to high order, replacing the conventional polynomial interpolations with polynomial-free GP-based interpolations. For shocks and discontinuities, this GP interpolation scheme uses a nonlinear shock handling …
The Quasi-Spectral Viscosity (QSV) method is a novel closure for a high-order finite-difference discretization of the filtered compressible Navier-Stokes equations capable of unifying dynamic sub-filter scale (SFS) modeling and shock capturing under a single mathematical framework. Its innovation lies in the introduction of a physical-space implementation of a spectral-like SFS dissipation term by leveraging residuals of filter operations, achieving two goals: (1) estimating the energy of the resolved solution near the grid cutoff; (2) imposing a plateau-cusp shape to the spectral distribution…
A novel 5th-order shock capturing scheme is presented in this paper. The scheme, so-called P4-THINC-BVD (4th degree polynomial and THINC reconstruction based on BVD algorithm), is formulated as a two-stage cascade BVD (Boundary Variation Diminishing) algorithm following the BVD principle that minimizes the jumps of reconstructed values at cell boundaries. In the P4-THINC-BVD scheme, polynomial of degree four and THINC (Tangent of Hyperbola for INterface Capturing) functions with adaptive steepness are used as the candidate reconstruction functions. The final reconstruction function is selected…
Solving compressible flows containing discontinuities remains a major challenge for numerical methods especially on unstructured grids. Thus in this work, we make contributions to shock capturing schemes on unstructured grids with aim of resolving discontinuities with low numerical dissipation. Different from conventional shock capturing schemes which only use polynomials as interpolation functions on unstructured grids, the proposed scheme employs the linear polynomial as well as non-polynomial as reconstruction candidates. For linear polynomial, the second order MUSCL scheme with the MLP (Mu…
We present a shock capturing method for large-eddy simulation of turbulent flows. The proposed method relies on physical mechanisms to resolve and smooth sharp unresolved flow features that may otherwise lead to numerical instability, such as shock waves and under-resolved thermal and shear layers. To that end, we devise various sensors to detect when and where the shear viscosity, bulk viscosity and thermal conductivity of the fluid do not suffice to stabilize the numerical solution. In such cases, the fluid viscosities are selectively increased to ensure the cell Peclet number is of order on…
We build a multi-element variant of the smoothness increasing accuracy conserving (SIAC) shock capturing technique proposed for single element spectral methods by Wissink et al. (B.W. Wissink, G.B. Jacobs, J.K. Ryan, W.S. Don, and E.T.A. van der Weide. Shock regularization with smoothness-increasing accuracy-conserving Dirac-delta polynomial kernels. Journal of Scientific Computing, 77:579--596, 2018). In particular, the baseline scheme of our method is the nodal discontinuous Galerkin spectral element method (DGSEM) for approximating the solution of systems of conservation laws. It is well kn…
There are many ideas for developing shock-capturing schemes and their extension for all-speed flow. The representatives of them are Roe, HLL and AUSM families. In this paper, a uniform algorithm is proposed, which expresses three families in the same framework. The algorithm has explicit physical meaning, provides a new angel of understanding and comparing the mechanism of schemes, and may play a great role in the further research. As an example of applying the uniform algorithm, the low-Mach number behaviour of the schemes is analyzed. Then, a very clear and simple explanation is given based …
The scale-resolving simulation of high speed compressible flow through direct numerical simulation (DNS) or large eddy simulation (LES) requires shock-capturing schemes to be more accurate for resolving broadband turbulence and robust for capturing strong shock waves. In this work, we develop a new paradigm of dissipation-controllable, shock capturing scheme to resolve multi-scale flow structures in high speed compressible flow. This novel paradigm of shock-capturing scheme is named as PnTm-BVD-CD. The proposed PnTm-BVD-CD scheme has following desirable properties. First, it can capture large-…
A novel approach to shock capturing for high-order flux reconstruction schemes is derived based on the mathematical formalism of the filtered governing equations. While the latter perspective is only typically used for turbulence modeling in the context of Large-Eddy Simulations (LES), the novel Legendre Spectral Viscosity (LSV) sub-filter scale (SFS) closure model is capable of performing simulations in the presence of shock-discontinuities. The LSV method exploits the set of hierarchical basis functions formed by the Legendre polynomials to extract the information on the energy content near …
The main result in this paper is a provably entropy stable shock capturing approach for the high order entropy stable DGSEM based on a hybrid blending with a subcell low order variant. Since it is possible to rewrite a high order SBP operator into an equivalent conservative finite volume form, we were able to design a low order scheme directly with the LGL nodes that is compatible to the discrete entropy analysis used for the proof of the entropy stable DGSEM. Furthermore, we present a hybrid low order/high order discretisation where it is possible to seamlessly blend between the two approache…
Simulations of single- and multi-species compressible flows with shock waves and discontinuities are conducted using a weighted compact nonlinear scheme (WCNS) with a newly developed sixth order localized dissipative interpolation. In smooth regions, the scheme applies the central nonlinear interpolation with minimum dissipation to well resolve fluctuating flow features while in regions containing discontinuities and high wavenumber features, the scheme suppresses spurious numerical oscillations by hybridizing the central interpolation with the more dissipative upwind-biased nonlinear interpol…
High-speed turbulent flows are encountered in most space-related applications (including exploration, tourism and defense fields) and represent a subject of growing interest in the last decades. A major challenge in performing high-fidelity simulations of such flows resides in the stringent requirements for the numerical schemes to be used. These must be robust enough to handle strong, unsteady discontinuities, while ensuring low amounts of intrinsic dissipation in smooth flow regions. Furthermore, the wide range of temporal and spatial active scales leads to concurrent needs for numerical sta…
In this work, we introduce a novel approach to formulating an artificial viscosity for shock capturing in nonlinear hyperbolic systems by utilizing the property that the solutions of hyperbolic conservation laws are not reversible in time in the vicinity of shocks. The proposed approach does not require any additional governing equations or a priori knowledge of the hyperbolic system in question, is independent of the mesh and approximation order, and requires the use of only one tunable parameter. The primary novelty is that the resulting artificial viscosity is unique for each component of t…
We propose and demonstrate, with the one-dimensional Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers model, the scenarios of transfer loop and \textit{all-scale} statistical equilibrium, the former being associated to shock formation and the latter to Gaussian distributions as in a canonical ensemble, but with wavelength-dependent temperatures. The discussions emphasize, among the multi-disciplinary relevance, the classical nonlinear acoustics and quantum shock waves, for the possibility of more favorable experimental tests.
In this paper, we present a novel hybrid nonlinear explicit-compact scheme for shock-capturing based on a boundary variation diminishing (BVD) reconstruction. In our approach, we combine a non-dissipative sixth-order central compact interpolation and a fifth-order monotonicity preserving scheme (MP5) through the BVD algorithm. For a smooth solution, the BVD reconstruction chooses the highest order possible interpolation, which is central, i.e. non-dissipative in the current approach and for the discontinuities, the algorithm selects the monotone scheme. This method provides an alternative to t…
We present THC: a new high-order flux-vector-splitting code for Newtonian and special-relativistic hydrodynamics designed for direct numerical simulations of turbulent flows. Our code implements a variety of different reconstruction algorithms, such as the popular weighted essentially non oscillatory and monotonicity-preserving schemes, or the more specialised bandwidth-optimised WENO scheme that has been specifically designed for the study of compressible turbulence. We show the first systematic comparison of these schemes in Newtonian physics as well as for special-relativistic flows. In par…
In recent years, machine learning has been used to create data-driven solutions to problems for which an algorithmic solution is intractable, as well as fine-tuning existing algorithms. This research applies machine learning to the development of an improved finite-volume method for simulating PDEs with discontinuous solutions. Shock capturing methods make use of nonlinear switching functions that are not guaranteed to be optimal. Because data can be used to learn nonlinear relationships, we train a neural network to improve the results of a fifth-order WENO method. We post-process the outputs…
The second paper of this series presents two robust entropy stable shock-capturing methods for discontinuous Galerkin spectral element (DGSEM) discretizations of the compressible magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) equations. Specifically, we use the resistive GLM-MHD equations, which include a divergence cleaning mechanism that is based on a generalized Lagrange multiplier (GLM). For the continuous entropy analysis to hold, and due to the divergence-free constraint on the magnetic field, the GLM-MHD system requires the use of non-conservative terms, which need special treatment. Hennemann et al. [DOI…
In the Part 1 of the present paper the performance of several different low and high-order finite-volume methods were assessed by investigating how well they can capture the turbulent spectra of a compressible flow where small smooth turbulent structures interact with shocks and discontinuities. The comparisons showed that a second-order Godunov method with PPM interpolation provides results virtually the same as a fourth-order WENO scheme but at a significant lower cost. However, it is shown that the PPM method fails to provide an accurate representation in the high-frequency range of the spe…
High fidelity numerical simulation of compressible flow requires the numerical method being used to have both stable shock-capturing capability and high spectral resolution. Recently, a family of Targeted Essentially Non-Oscillatory (TENO) schemes are developed to fulfill such requirements. Although TENO has very low dissipation for smooth flow, it introduces a cutoff value $C_T$ to maintain the non-oscillatory shock-capturing property. $C_T$ is problem depended and therefore needs adjustments by trial and error for different problems. As $C_T$ actually controls the dissipation property of TEN…
The speed of sound in two-phase pipe flow systems is often several orders of magnitude greater than the travelling speed of hydraulic information (volume fractions.) Dynamically simulating such flows requires resolution of acoustic and hydraulic waves existing at vastly different spatial and temporal scales. If simulated on the same numerical grid, the need for accuracy in hydraulic waves will necessitate an exaggerated resolution of acoustic waves. Likewise, time steps restricted by the speed of sound are small compared to the time scales active in hydraulic waves. This constitutes a waste of…
