On maximum-principle-satisfying high order schemes for scalar conservation laws

  • Authors:

  • Xiangxiong Zhang;Chi-Wang Shu

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, United States;Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, United States

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

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Abstract

We construct uniformly high order accurate schemes satisfying a strict maximum principle for scalar conservation laws. A general framework (for arbitrary order of accuracy) is established to construct a limiter for finite volume schemes (e.g. essentially non-oscillatory (ENO) or weighted ENO (WENO) schemes) or discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method with first order Euler forward time discretization solving one-dimensional scalar conservation laws. Strong stability preserving (SSP) high order time discretizations will keep the maximum principle. It is straightforward to extend the method to two and higher dimensions on rectangular meshes. We also show that the same limiter can preserve the maximum principle for DG or finite volume schemes solving two-dimensional incompressible Euler equations in the vorticity stream-function formulation, or any passive convection equation with an incompressible velocity field. Numerical tests for both the WENO finite volume scheme and the DG method are reported.