High Order Finite Difference Hermite WENO Fixed-Point Fast Sweeping Method for Static Hamilton-Jacobi Equations

In this paper, we combine the nonlinear HWENO reconstruction in [43] andthe fixed-point iteration with Gauss-Seidel fast sweeping strategy, to solve the staticHamilton-Jacobi equations in a novel HWENO framework recently developed in [22].The proposed HWENO frameworks enjoys several advantages. First, compared withthe traditional HWENO framework, the proposed methods do not need to introduceadditional auxiliary equations to update the derivatives of the unknown function φ.They are now computed from the current value of φ and the previous spatial derivatives of φ. This approach saves the computational storage and CPU time, which greatlyimproves the computational efficiency of the traditional HWENO scheme. In addition,compared with the traditional WENO method, reconstruction stencil of the HWENOmethods becomes more compact, their boundary treatment is simpler, and the numerical errors are smaller on the same mesh. Second, the fixed-point fast sweeping methodis used to update the numerical approximation. It is an explicit method and doesnot involve the inverse operation of nonlinear Hamiltonian, therefore any HamiltonJacobi equations with complex Hamiltonian can be solved easily. It also resolves someknown issues, including that the iterative number is very sensitive to the parameterε used in the nonlinear weights, as observed in previous studies. Finally, to furtherreduce the computational cost, a hybrid strategy is also presented. Extensive numerical experiments are performed on two-dimensional problems, which demonstrate thegood performance of the proposed fixed-point fast sweeping HWENO methods.