A combination of Residual Distribution and the Active Flux formulations or a new class of schemes that can combine several writings of the same hyperbolic problem: application to the 1D Euler equations

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel class of schemes combining residual distribution and active flux methods for hyperbolic systems, enabling continuous solutions with mixed conservative and non-conservative formulations, demonstrated on challenging benchmarks.

Contribution

It proposes a new scheme framework that unifies conservative and non-conservative formulations without switching, inspired by residual distribution and active flux methods, with proven stability and convergence.

Findings

Scheme satisfies a Lax-Wendroff like theorem.

Method achieves nonlinear stability.

Effective on challenging benchmark problems.

Abstract

We show how to combine in a natural way (i.e. without any test nor switch) the conservative and non conservative formulations of an hyperbolic system that has a conservative form. This is inspired from two different class of schemes: the Residual Distribution one \cite{MR4090481}, and the Active Flux formulations \cite{AF1, AF3, AF4,AF5,RoeAF}. The solution is globally continuous, and as in the active flux method, described by a combination of point values and average values. Unlike the "classical" active flux methods, the meaning of the pointwise and cella averaged degrees of freedom is different, and hence follow different form of PDEs: it is a conservative version of the cell average, and a possibly non conservative one for the points. This new class of scheme is proved to satisfy a Lax-Wendroff like theorem. We also develop a method to perform non linear stability. We illustrate the behaviour on several benchmarks, some quite challenging.