Enhanced spectral viscosity approximations for conservation laws
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Enhanced spectral viscosity approximations for conservation laws
zbMATH Open document ID: 0973.65088
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9274(99)00067-7
author: Anne Gelb
author: Eitan Tadmor
published in: Applied Numerical Mathematics
publication date: 2001-05-01T00:00:00Z
review text: A spectral method for conservation laws is presented, which is based on the spectral viscosity (SV) method formerly introduced by \textit{E. Tadmor} [SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 26, No. 1, 30-44 (1989; Zbl 0667.65079)] and later developed with co-workers. The novelty here is that an enhanced edge detection method is used for locating shocks and contact discontinuities. That method relies on so-called concentration factors, and was previously introduced in a general context by \textit{A. Gelb} and \textit{G. Tadmor} [Appl. Comput. Harmon. Anal. 7, No. 1, 101-135 (1999; Zbl 0952.42001) and SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 38, No. 4, 1389-1408 (2000; Zbl 0990.42025)]. It appears to be well suited to identify the edges of discontinuities arising in approximate solutions of conservation laws computed by the SV-method. This enables the authors to profitably use the Gegenbauer post-processing method in order to cope with the Gibbs phenomenon [on this topic, see \textit{D. Gottlied} and \textit{C.-W. Shu}, SIAM Rev. 39, No. 4, 644-668 (1997; Zbl 0885.42003)]. Convincing numerical examples are provided for the inviscid Burgers equation with periodic boundary conditions and the Euler equations for a polytropic gas with Riemann data. It is to be noted that both the enhanced edge detection and the post-processing are performed only at the final time step, which minimizes the additional cost. An interesting feature of the results presented is that computed contact discontinuities are sharp and free of oscillations. Surprisingly though, there are spikes at the tips of rarefactions. The authors hope to improve this by optimizing the parameters in the Gegenbauer post-processing method.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 65M70
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 35L65
zbMATH DE Number: 1441149
zbMATH Keywords: spectral-viscosity methods
zbMATH Keywords: enhanced edge detection
zbMATH Keywords: shock-capturing methods
zbMATH Keywords: conservation laws
zbMATH Keywords: shocks
zbMATH Keywords: contact discontinuities
zbMATH Keywords: Gegenbauer post-processing method
zbMATH Keywords: Gibbs phenomenon
zbMATH Keywords: numerical examples
zbMATH Keywords: Burgers equation
zbMATH Keywords: Euler equations
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