An All-Regime Lagrange-Projection Like Scheme for the Gas Dynamics Equations on Unstructured Meshes. (22nd June 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Chalons, Christophe; Girardin, Mathieu; Kokh, Samuel
• Is Part Of: Communications in computational physics. Volume 20:Number 1(2016:Jul.)
• Page Start: 188
• Page End: 233
• Publication Date: 2016-06-22
• Subjects: 35L65, -- 35L40, -- 65M08, -- 76N15, -- 76M12, -- 76B99; Gas dynamics equations, -- low-Mach regime, -- finite volume schemes, -- all-regime schemes, -- Lagrange-Projection like schemes, -- large time-steps; Mathematical physics -- Data processing -- Periodicals; Physics -- Data processing -- Periodicals; 530.150285
• DOI: 10.4208/cicp.260614.061115a
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1815-2406

Abstract

Abstract: We propose an all regime Lagrange-Projection like numerical scheme for the gas dynamics equations. By all regime, we mean that the numerical scheme is able to compute accurate approximate solutions with an under-resolved discretization with respect to the Mach number M, i.e. such that the ratio between the Mach number M and the mesh size or the time step is small with respect to 1. The key idea is to decouple acoustic and transport phenomenon and then alter the numerical flux in the acoustic approximation to obtain a uniform truncation error in term of M . This modified scheme is conservative and endowed with good stability properties with respect to the positivity of the density and the internal energy. A discrete entropy inequality under a condition on the modification is obtained thanks to a reinterpretation of the modified scheme in the Harten Lax and van Leer formalism. A natural extension to multi-dimensional problems discretized over unstructured mesh is proposed. Then a simple and efficient semi implicit scheme is also proposed. The resulting scheme is stable under a CFL condition driven by the (slow) material waves and not by the (fast) acoustic waves and so verifies the all regime property. Numerical evidences are proposed and show the ability of the scheme to deal with tests where the flow regime may vary from low to high Mach values.