Shock capturing for discontinuous galerkin methods
- Autores: Eva Casoni Rero
- Directores de la Tesis: Antonio Huerta Cerezuela (dir. tes.)
- Lectura: En la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) ( España ) en 2011
- Idioma: catalán
- Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Ramón Codina Rovira (presid.), Sonia Fernández Méndez (secret.), Blanca Ayuso de Dios (voc.), Rubén Sevilla Cárdenas (voc.), Carlos Manuel Castro Barbero (voc.)
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- Resumen
This thesis proposes shock-capturing methods for high-order Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) formulations providing highly accurate solutions for compressible flows.
In the last decades, research in DG methods has been very active. The success of DG in hyperbolic problems has driven many studies for nonlinear conservation laws and convection-dominated problems. Among all the advantages of DG, their inherent stability and local conservation properties are relevant. Moreover, DG methods are naturally suited for high-order approximations. Actually, in recent years it has been shown that convection-dominated problems are no longer restricted to low-order elements. In fact, highly accurate numerical models for High-Fidelity predictions in CFD are necessary. Under this rationale, two shock-capturing techniques are presented and discussed.
First, a novel and simple technique based on on the introduction of a new basis of shape functions is presented. It has the ability to change locally between a continuous or discontinuous interpolation depending on the smoothness of the approximated function. In the presence of shocks, the new discontinuities inside an element introduce the required stabilization thanks to the numerical fluxes, thus exploiting DG inherent properties. Large high-order elements can therefore be used and shocks are captured within a single element, avoiding adaptive mesh refinement and preserving the locality and compactness of the DG scheme.
Second, a classical and, apparently simple, technique is advocated: the introduction of arti¿cial viscosity. First, a one-dimensional study is perfomed. Viscosity of the order O(hk) with 1= k= p is obtained, hence inducing a shock width of the same order. Second, the study extends the accurate one-dimensional viscosity to triangular multidimensional meshes. The extension is based on the projection of the one-dimensional viscosity into some characteristic spatial directions within the elements. It is consistently shown that the introduced viscosity scales, at most, withthe DG resolutions length scales, h/p. The method is especially reliable for high-order DG approximations, say p=3.
A wide range of different numerical tests validate both methodologies. In some examples the proposed methods allow to reduce by an order of magnitude the number of degrees of freedom necessary to accurately capture the shocks, compared to standard low order h-adaptive approaches.
