New adaptive low-dissipation central-upwind schemes

We introduce new second-order adaptive low-dissipation central-upwind (LDCU) schemes for the one- and two-dimensional hyperbolic systems of conservation laws. The new adaptive LDCU schemes employ the recently proposed LDCU numerical fluxes computed using the point values reconstructed with the help of adaptively selected nonlinear limiters. To this end, we use a smoothness indicator to detect “rough” parts of the computed solution, where the piecewise linear reconstruction is performed using an overcompressive limiter, which leads to extremely sharp resolution of shock and contact waves. In the “smooth” areas, we use a more dissipative limiter to prevent appearance of artificial kinks and staircase-like structures there. In order to avoid oscillations, we perform the reconstruction in the local characteristic variables obtained using the local characteristic decomposition. We use a smoothness indicator from Löhner (1987) [34] and apply the developed schemes to the one- and two-dimensional Euler equations of gas dynamics. The obtained numerical results clearly demonstrate that the new adaptive LDCU schemes outperform the original ones.