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Shock waves are steep wave fronts that are fundamental in nature, especially in high-speed fluid flows. When a shock hits an obstacle, or a flying body meets a shock, shock reflection/diffraction phenomena occur. In this paper, we show how…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-17 Gui-Qiang G. Chen , Mikhail Feldman

Nonlinearly stable flux reconstruction (NSFR) combines the key properties of provable nonlinear stability with the increased time step from energy-stable flux reconstruction. The NSFR scheme has been successfully applied to unsteady…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Sai Shruthi Srinivasan , Siva Nadarajah

In this work, we develop a modelling framework for granular flows based on the shallow water moment equations on inclined planes. Under the assumption of a polynomial expansion of the velocity field, the model extends the classical shallow…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Julio Careaga , Qian Huang , Julian Koellermeier

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-31 Luca Sciacovelli , Donatella Passiatore , Paola Cinnella , Giuseppe Pascazio

The numerical simulation of supersonic complex flow problems demands capabilities in identifying multiscale structures and capturing shocks, imposing stringent requirements on the numerical scheme. The capability to identify multiscale…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-10 Kang He , Hongwei Liu , Tongbiao Guo , Xinliang Li , Zhiwei He

Applying high-order finite-difference schemes, like the extensively used linear-upwind or WENO schemes, to curvilinear grids can be problematic. The geometrically induced error from grid Jacobian and metrics evaluation can pollute the flow…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Yujie Zhu , Xiangyu Hu

The compact scheme has high order accuracy and high resolution, but cannot be used to capture the shock. WENO is a great scheme for shock capturing, but is too dissipative for turbulence and small length scales. We developed a modified…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-02-25 Huankun Fu , Ping Lu , Chaoqun Liu

In the case of hyperbolic conservation laws, high-order methods, such as the classical DG method, experience the phenomenon of unwanted high-frequency oscillations in the vicinity of a shock. Shock-capturing methods such as artificial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Sai Shruthi Srinivasan , Siva Nadarajah

In this first part of two papers, we extend the C-method developed in [40] for adding localized, space-time smooth artificial viscosity to nonlinear systems of conservation laws that propagate shock waves, rarefaction waves, and contact…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Raaghav Ramani , Jon Reisner , Steve Shkoller

We present a high order, robust, and stable shock-capturing technique for finite element approximations of ideal MHD. The method uses continuous Lagrange polynomials in space and explicit Runge-Kutta schemes in time. The shock-capturing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-17 Tuan Anh Dao , Murtazo Nazarov

Existing numerical models of the swash zone are relatively inflexible in dealing with sediment transport due to a high dependence of the deployed numerical schemes on empirical sediment transport relations. Moreover, these models are…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2015-09-28 Peng Hu , Wei Li , Zhiguo He , Thomas Pähtz , Zhiyuan Yue

A main disadvantage of many high-order methods for hyperbolic conservation laws lies in the famous Gibbs-Wilbraham phenomenon, once discontinuities appear in the solution. Due to the Gibbs-Wilbraham phenomenon, the numerical approximation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-30 Jan Glaubitz

High-order implicit shock tracking (fitting) is a class of high-order, optimization-based numerical methods to approximate solutions of conservation laws with non-smooth features by aligning elements of the computational mesh with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Tianci Huang , Charles Naudet , Matthew J. Zahr

When a plane shock hits a wedge head on, it experiences a reflection-diffraction process, and then a self-similar reflected shock moves outward as the original shock moves forward in time. The complexity of reflection-diffraction…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-09-30 Gui-Qiang Chen , Mikhail Feldman

We study experimental convergence rates of three shock-capturing schemes for hyperbolic systems of conservation laws: the second-order central-upwind (CU) scheme, the third-order Rusanov-Burstein-Mirin (RBM), and the fifth-order alternative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-24 Shaoshuai Chu , Olyana A. Kovyrkina , Alexander Kurganov , Vladimir V. Ostapenko

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-23 David Radice , Luciano Rezzolla

OpenFOAM is a widely used computational fluid dynamics (CFD) framework based on the finite volume method for solving a wide range of flow problems. However, its default numerical schemes, particularly the Kurganov-Noelle-Petrova (KNP)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-29 Anurag Adityanarayan Ray , Sreejita Bhaduri , Swetarka Das , Ashoke De

We present an improved high-order weighted compact high resolution (WCHR) scheme that extends the idea of weighted compact nonlinear schemes (WCNS's) using nonlinear interpolations in conjunction with compact finite difference schemes for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-05 A. Subramaniam , M. L. Wong , S. K. Lele

The Equation-Free approach to efficient multiscale numerical computation marries trusted micro-scale simulations to a framework for numerical macro-scale reduction -- the patch dynamics scheme. A recent novel patch scheme empowered the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-08-27 John Maclean , J. E. Bunder , I. G. Kevrekidis , A. J. Roberts

We present some recent developments on shock capturing methods for nonlinear hyperbolic systems of balance laws, whose prototype is the Euler system of compressible fluid flows, and especially discuss {structure-preserving} techniques. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-29 Philippe G. LeFloch