Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics Seminar

University of Michigan

Fall 2007
Friday, 12 October, 3:10-4:00pm, 1084 East Hall

Hierarchical reconstruction for DG, Central DG and finite volume schemes

Yingjie Liu

Georgia Tech


Abstract

Motivated by the moment limiter of Biswas, Devine and Flaherty [Appl. Numer. Math. 14(1994)], we develop a general non-oscillatory hierarchical reconstruction (HR) procedure for removing the spurious oscillations in the high degree polynomial of a cell computed by the central DG scheme. This procedure is fully multidimensional and can be applied to any shapes of cells at least in theory. HR uses the most compact stencil and thus fitts very well with DG. Further more, it doesn't need any charcteristic decomposition even for very high order, such as 5th order, even though there could be small overshoots/undershoots for very high order when there are interactions of discontinuities. The basic idea and major operations are to decompose a high degree polynomial reconstruction into hierarchical linear reconstructions, such as the MUSCL reconstruction.

HR can be applied to central and finite volume schemes as well resulting in a new finite volume approach. These finite volume schemes can be used for unstructured meshes with essentially no restriction on meshes, and can be done without charcteristic decomposition. We will demonstrate through numerical experiments the effectiveness of the HR.

If time allows, I can also disuss a recently developed BFECC algorithm and its application to fluid and interface simulations for computer graphics.

Joint with Chi-Wang Shu, Eitan Tadmor and Mengping Zhang