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Artificial viscosity to cure the shock instability in high-order Godunov-type schemes

Numerical Analysis 2018-12-27 v2

Abstract

The artificial viscosity approach for curing the carbuncle phenomenon (a numerical problem, also known as the shock instability) in shock-capturing methods has been recently presented and successfully tested on the first-order schemes in two- and three-dimensional simulations. The present study extends the proposed approach to the case of using high-order Godunov-type schemes. Several implementations of well-known schemes were selected for the study. They involve the MUSCL and WENO data reconstructions in space along with the Runge-Kutta and Hancock-type time stepping techniques. Numerous computations of the Quirk-type test problems and other popular tests were performed to examine and tune the artificial viscosity approach as applied to the selected schemes. As a result of this study (1) the principal coefficient in the artificial viscosity model was adjusted and (2) some methodological suggestions for substantial weakening of the post-shock oscillations were stated.

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@article{arxiv.1811.11108,
  title  = {Artificial viscosity to cure the shock instability in high-order Godunov-type schemes},
  author = {Alexander V. Rodionov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.11108},
  year   = {2018}
}

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Submitted to Journal of Computational Physics in 2018 (June 10)