A low-dissipation shock-capturing framework with flexible nonlinear dissipation control

TL;DR

This paper introduces a flexible, high-order shock-capturing framework that combines ENO-like stencil selection with nonlinear limiters, enabling controllable dissipation for convection-dominated problems.

Contribution

The paper proposes a novel framework integrating TENO, WENO, and nonlinear limiters, allowing independent control of dissipation and improved shock-capturing performance.

Findings

Sharp discontinuity capturing

Low dissipation in high-wavenumber fluctuations

Maintains high accuracy in smooth regions

Abstract

In this work, a framework to construct arbitrarily high-order low-dissipation shock-capturing schemes with flexible and controllable nonlinear dissipation for convection-dominated problems is proposed. While a set of candidate stencils of incremental width is constructed, each one is indicated as smooth or nonsmooth by the ENO-like stencil selection procedure proposed in the targeted essentially non-oscillatory (TENO) scheme [Fu et al., Journal of Computational Physics 305 (2016): 333-359]. Rather than being discarded directly as with TENO schemes, the nonsmooth candidates are filtered by an extra nonlinear limiter, such as a monotonicity-preserving (MP) limiter or a total variation diminishing (TVD) limiter. Consequently, high-order reconstruction is achieved by assembling candidate fluxes with optimal linear weights since they are either smooth reconstructions or filtered ones which feature good non-oscillation property. A weight renormalization procedure as with the standard TENO paradigm is not necessary. This new framework concatenates the concepts of TENO, WENO and other nonlinear limiters for shock-capturing, and provides a new insight to designing low-dissipation nonlinear schemes. Through the adaptation of nonlinear limiters, nonlinear dissipation in the newly proposed framework can be controlled separately without affecting the performance in smooth regions. Based on the proposed framework, a family of new six- and eight-point nonlinear schemes with controllable dissipation is proposed. A set of critical benchmark cases involving strong discontinuities and broadband fluctuations is simulated. Numerical results reveal that the proposed new schemes capture discontinuities sharply and resolve the high-wavenumber fluctuations with low dissipation, while maintaining the desired accuracy order in smooth regions.