Title
Implicit-explicit schemes for flow equations with stiff source terms
Abstract
In this paper, we design stable and accurate numerical schemes for conservation laws with stiff source terms. A prime example and the main motivation for our study is the reactive Euler equations of gas dynamics. Furthermore, we consider widely studied scalar model equations. We device one-step IMEX (implicit-explicit) schemes for these equations that treats the convection terms explicitly and the source terms implicitly. For the non-linear scalar equation, we use a novel choice of initial data for the resulting Newton solver and obtain correct propagation speeds, even in the difficult case of rarefaction initial data. For the reactive Euler equations, we choose the numerical diffusion suitably in order to obtain correct wave speeds on under-resolved meshes. We prove that our implicit-explicit scheme converges in the scalar case and present a large number of numerical experiments to validate our scheme in both the scalar case as well as the case of reactive Euler equations. Furthermore, we discuss fundamental differences between the reactive Euler equations and the scalar model equation that must be accounted for when designing a scheme.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1016/j.cam.2010.08.015
J. Computational Applied Mathematics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
difficult case,accurate numerical scheme,implicit-explicit scheme,numerical diffusion suitably,scalar model equation,reactive euler equation,numerical experiment,implicit-explicit scheme converges,non-linear scalar equation,correct propagation speed,stiff source term,flow equation,scalar case,conservation law,gas dynamics,euler equation,source term
Journal
235
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
6
0377-0427
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
3
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Magnus Svärd142738.10
Siddhartha Mishra217021.36