High-Order Alternative Formulation of Weighted Essentially Non-Oscillatory Scheme With Minimized Dispersion and Controllable Dissipation for Compressible Flows

Abstract

Following the proposition of the original AWENO (Alternative Formulation of Weighted Essentially Non-Oscillatory) FD (Finite Difference) scheme, we construct the new AMDCD FD scheme, an Alternative formulation of the linear FD scheme with Minimized Dispersion and Controllable Dissipation, in this article. Spectral analysis shows that the proposed AMDCD FD scheme can be more efficient in resolving smooth solutions due to the flexibility in controlling dissipation. To efficiently solve compressible flows with discontinuities, we further combined the proposed AMDCD FD scheme with the original AWENO FD scheme using a hybrid interpolation scheme, in which the optimized linear MDCD (Minimized Dispersion and Controllable Dissipation) interpolation scheme would be switched to the nonlinear WENO (Weighted Essentially Non-Oscillatory) type interpolation scheme gradually as the flow structures are in transition from smooth region towards the vicinity of discontinuities. Therefore, the resulting hybrid AWENO-AMDCD FD scheme is suitable for solving compressible flows with broad-scale flow structures and/or shock waves. A series of one-, two-, and three-dimensional compressible flow problems are numerically tested to demonstrate the accuracy, superior resolution, as well as the robustness of the proposed hybrid AWENO-AMDCD FD scheme.