Curl Constraint-Preserving Reconstruction and the Guidance it Gives for Mimetic Scheme Design

Several important PDE systems,like magnetohydrodynamics and computational electrodynamics,are known to support involutions where the divergence of a vector field evolves in divergence-free or divergence constraint-preserving fashion.Recently,new classes of PDE systems have emerged for hyperelasticity,compressible multiphase flows,so-called firstorder reductions of the Einstein field equations,or a novel first-order hyperbolic reformulation of Schrödinger’s equation,to name a few,where the involution in the PDE supports curl-free or curl constraint-preserving evolution of a vector field.We study the problem of curl constraint-preserving reconstruction as it pertains to the design of mimetic finite volume(FV)WENO-like schemes for PDEs that support a curl-preserving involution.(Some insights into discontinuous Galerkin(DG)schemes are also drawn,though that is not the prime focus of this paper.)This is done for two-and three-dimensional structured mesh problems where we deliver closed form expressions for the reconstruction.The importance of multidimensional Riemann solvers in facilitating the design of such schemes is also documented.In two dimensions,a von Neumann analysis of structure-preserving WENOlike schemes that mimetically satisfy the curl constraints,is also presented.It shows the tremendous value of higher order WENO-like schemes in minimizing dissipation and dispersion for this class of problems.Numerical results are also presented to show that the edge-centered curl-preserving(ECCP)schemes meet their design accuracy.This paper is the first paper that invents non-linearly hybridized curl-preserving reconstruction and integrates it with higher order Godunov philosophy.By its very design,this paper is,therefore,intended to be forward-looking and to set the stage for future work on curl involution-constrained PDEs.

Efficient WENO-Based Prolongation Strategies for Divergence-Preserving Vector Fields

Adaptive mesh refinement(AMR)is the art of solving PDEs on a mesh hierarchy with increasing mesh refinement at each level of the hierarchy.Accurate treatment on AMR hierarchies requires accurate prolongation of the solution from a coarse mesh to a newly defined finer mesh.For scalar variables,suitably high-order finite volume WENO methods can carry out such a prolongation.However,classes of PDEs,such as computational electrodynamics(CED)and magnetohydrodynamics(MHD),require that vector fields preserve a divergence constraint.The primal variables in such schemes consist of normal components of the vector field that are collocated at the faces of the mesh.As a result,the reconstruction and prolongation strategies for divergence constraint-preserving vector fields are necessarily more intricate.In this paper we present a fourth-order divergence constraint-preserving prolongation strategy that is analytically exact.Extension to higher orders using analytically exact methods is very challenging.To overcome that challenge,a novel WENO-like reconstruction strategy is invented that matches the moments of the vector field in the faces,where the vector field components are collocated.This approach is almost divergence constraint-preserving,therefore,we call it WENO-ADP.To make it exactly divergence constraint-preserving,a touch-up procedure is developed that is based on a constrained least squares(CLSQ)method for restoring the divergence constraint up to machine accuracy.With the touch-up,it is called WENO-ADPT.It is shown that refinement ratios of two and higher can be accommodated.An item of broader interest in this work is that we have also been able to invent very efficient finite volume WENO methods,where the coefficients are very easily obtained and the multidimensional smoothness indicators can be expressed as perfect squares.We demonstrate that the divergence constraint-preserving strategy works at several high orders for divergence-free vector fields as well as vector fields,where the divergence of the vector field has to match a charge density and its higher moments.We also show that our methods overcome the late time instability that has been known to plague adaptive computations in CED.

Von Neumann Stability Analysis of DG-Like and PNPM-Like Schemes for PDEs with Globally Curl-Preserving Evolution of Vector Fields

This paper examines a class of involution-constrained PDEs where some part of the PDE system evolves a vector field whose curl remains zero or grows in proportion to specified source terms.Such PDEs are referred to as curl-free or curl-preserving,respectively.They arise very frequently in equations for hyperelasticity and compressible multiphase flow,in certain formulations of general relativity and in the numerical solution of Schrödinger’s equation.Experience has shown that if nothing special is done to account for the curl-preserving vector field,it can blow up in a finite amount of simulation time.In this paper,we catalogue a class of DG-like schemes for such PDEs.To retain the globally curl-free or curl-preserving constraints,the components of the vector field,as well as their higher moments,must be collocated at the edges of the mesh.They are updated using potentials collocated at the vertices of the mesh.The resulting schemes:(i)do not blow up even after very long integration times,(ii)do not need any special cleaning treatment,(iii)can oper-ate with large explicit timesteps,(iv)do not require the solution of an elliptic system and(v)can be extended to higher orders using DG-like methods.The methods rely on a spe-cial curl-preserving reconstruction and they also rely on multidimensional upwinding.The Galerkin projection,highly crucial to the design of a DG method,is now conducted at the edges of the mesh and yields a weak form update that uses potentials obtained at the verti-ces of the mesh with the help of a multidimensional Riemann solver.A von Neumann sta-bility analysis of the curl-preserving methods is conducted and the limiting CFL numbers of this entire family of methods are catalogued in this work.The stability analysis confirms that with the increasing order of accuracy,our novel curl-free methods have superlative phase accuracy while substantially reducing dissipation.We also show that PNPM-like methods,which only evolve the lower moments while reconstructing the higher moments,retain much of the excellent wave propagation characteristics of the DG-like methods while offering a much larger CFL number and lower computational complexity.The quadratic energy preservation of these methods is also shown to be excellent,especially at higher orders.The methods are also shown to be curl-preserving over long integration times.

Efficient Finite Difference WENO Scheme for Hyperbolic Systems withNon-conservativeProducts

Higher order finite difference weighted essentially non-oscillatory(WENO)schemes have been constructed for conservation laws.For multidimensional problems,they offer a high order accuracy at a fraction of the cost of a finite volume WENO or DG scheme of the comparable accuracy.This makes them quite attractive for several science and engineering applications.But,to the best of our knowledge,such schemes have not been extended to non-linear hyperbolic systems with non-conservative products.In this paper,we perform such an extension which improves the domain of the applicability of such schemes.The extension is carried out by writing the scheme in fluctuation form.We use the HLLI Riemann solver of Dumbser and Balsara(J.Comput.Phys.304:275-319,2016)as a building block for carrying out this extension.Because of the use of an HLL building block,the resulting scheme has a proper supersonic limit.The use of anti-diffusive fluxes ensures that stationary discontinuities can be preserved by the scheme,thus expanding its domain of the applicability.Our new finite difference WENO formulation uses the same WENO reconstruction that was used in classical versions,making it very easy for users to transition over to the present formulation.For conservation laws,the new finite difference WENO is shown to perform as well as the classical version of finite difference WENO,with two major advantages:(i)It can capture jumps in stationary linearly degenerate wave families exactly.(i)It only requires the reconstruction to be applied once.Several examples from hyperbolic PDE systems with non-conservative products are shown which indicate that the scheme works and achieves its design order of the accuracy for smooth multidimensional flows.Stringent Riemann problems and several novel multidimensional problems that are drawn from compressible Baer-Nunziato multiphase flow,multiphase debris flow and twolayer shallow water equations are also shown to document the robustness of the method.For some test problems that require well-balancing we have even been able to apply the scheme without any modification and obtain good results.Many useful PDEs may have stiff relaxation source terms for which the finite difference formulation of WENO is shown to provide some genuine advantages.