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A new flux‐limiting approach–based kinetic scheme for the Euler equations of gas dynamics
Author(s) -
Kumar Raushan,
Dass Anoop K.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal for numerical methods in fluids
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.938
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1097-0363
pISSN - 0271-2091
DOI - 10.1002/fld.4713
Subject(s) - flux limiter , euler equations , discretization , mathematics , boltzmann equation , kinetic scheme , euler's formula , polygon mesh , backward euler method , robustness (evolution) , boltzmann constant , mathematical analysis , kinetic energy , classical mechanics , physics , geometry , biochemistry , chemistry , quantum mechanics , gene , thermodynamics
Summary This paper proposes a new kinetic‐theory‐based high‐resolution scheme for the Euler equations of gas dynamics. The scheme uses the well‐known connection that the Euler equations are suitable moments of the collisionless Boltzmann equation of kinetic theory. The collisionless Boltzmann equation is discretized using Sweby's flux‐limited method and the moment of this Boltzmann level formulation gives a Euler level scheme. It is demonstrated how conventional limiters and an extremum‐preserving limiter can be adapted for use in the scheme to achieve a desired effect. A simple total variation diminishing criteria relaxing parameter results in improving the resolution of the discontinuities in a significant way. A 1D scheme is formulated first and an extension to 2D on Cartesian meshes is carried out next. Accuracy analysis suggests that the scheme achieves between first‐ and second‐order accuracy as is expected for any second‐order flux‐limited method. The simplicity and the explicit form of the conservative numerical fluxes add to the efficiency of the scheme. Several standard 1D and 2D test problems are solved to demonstrate the robustness and accuracy.