Title
The Piecewise Cubic Method (PCM) for computational fluid dynamics.
Abstract
We present a new high-order finite volume reconstruction method for hyperbolic conservation laws. The method is based on a piecewise cubic polynomial which provides its solutions a fifth-order accuracy in space. The spatially reconstructed solutions are evolved in time with a fourth-order accuracy by tracing the characteristics of the cubic polynomials. As a result, our temporal update scheme provides a significantly simpler and computationally more efficient approach in achieving fourth order accuracy in time, relative to the comparable fourth-order Runge–Kutta method. We demonstrate that the solutions of PCM converges at fifth-order in solving 1D smooth flows described by hyperbolic conservation laws. We test the new scheme on a range of numerical experiments, including both gas dynamics and magnetohydrodynamics applications in multiple spatial dimensions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1016/j.jcp.2017.04.004
Journal of Computational Physics
Keywords
Field
DocType
High-order methods,Piecewise cubic method,Finite volume method,Gas dynamics,Magnetohydrodynamics,Godunov's method
Mathematical optimization,Gas dynamics,Mathematical analysis,Cubic function,Magnetohydrodynamics,Computational fluid dynamics,Finite volume method,Piecewise,Tracing,Mathematics,Conservation law
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
341
0021-9991
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
29
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dongwook Lee120.36
Hugues Faller220.36
Adam Reyes341.06