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Low Mach number limit of some staggered schemes for compressible barotropic flows

Numerical Analysis 2018-04-02 v2 Analysis of PDEs Classical Physics

Abstract

In this paper, we study the behaviour at low Mach number of numerical schemes based on staggered discretizations for the barotropic Navier-Stokes equations. Three time discretizations are considered: the implicit-in-time scheme and two non-iterative pressure correction schemes. The last two schemes differ by the discretization of the convection term: linearly implicit for the first one, so the resulting scheme is unconditionnally stable, and explicit for the second one, so the scheme is stable under a CFL condition involving the material velocity only. We rigorously prove that these three variants are asymptotic preserving in the following sense: for a given mesh and a given time step, a sequence of solutions obtained with a sequence of vanishing Mach numbers tend to a solution of a standard scheme for incompressible flows. This convergence result is obtained by mimicking the proof already known in the continuous case.

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@article{arxiv.1803.09568,
  title  = {Low Mach number limit of some staggered schemes for compressible barotropic flows},
  author = {R. Herbin and J. -C Latché and Khaled Saleh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.09568},
  year   = {2018}
}