Multi-dimensional limiting process for hyperbolic conservation laws on unstructured grids

  • Authors:

  • Jin Seok Park;Sung-Hwan Yoon;Chongam Kim

  • Affiliations:

  • School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Republic of Korea;School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Republic of Korea;School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Republic of Korea and Institute of Advanced Aerospace Technology, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engin ...

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational Physics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The present paper deals with an efficient and accurate limiting strategy for the multi-dimensional hyperbolic conservation laws on unstructured grids. The multi-dimensional limiting process (MLP) which has been successfully proposed on structured grids is extended to unstructured grids. The basic idea of the proposed limiting strategy is to control the distribution of both cell-centered and cell-vertex physical properties to mimic multi-dimensional nature of flow physics, which can be formulated to satisfy so called the MLP condition. The MLP condition can guarantee high-order spatial accuracy and improved convergence without yielding spurious oscillations. Starting from the MUSCL-type reconstruction on unstructured grids followed by the efficient implementation of the MLP condition, MLP slope limiters on unstructured meshes are obtained. Thanks to its superior limiting strategy and maximum principle satisfying characteristics, the newly developed MLP on unstructured grids is quite effective in controlling numerical oscillations as well as accurate in capturing multi-dimensional flow features. Numerous test cases are presented to validate the basic features of the proposed approach.