Sparse-Grid Implementation of Fixed-Point Fast Sweeping WENO Schemes for Eikonal Equations

Fixed-point fast sweeping methods are a class of explicit iterative methods developed in the literature to efficiently solve steady-state solutions of hyperbolic partial differential equations(PDEs).As other types of fast sweeping schemes,fixed-point fast sweeping methods use the Gauss-Seidel iterations and alternating sweeping strategy to cover characteristics of hyperbolic PDEs in a certain direction simultaneously in each sweeping order.The resulting iterative schemes have a fast convergence rate to steady-state solutions.Moreover,an advantage of fixed-point fast sweeping methods over other types of fast sweeping methods is that they are explicit and do not involve the inverse operation of any nonlinear local system.Hence,they are robust and flexible,and have been combined with high-order accurate weighted essentially non-oscillatory(WENO)schemes to solve various hyperbolic PDEs in the literature.For multidimensional nonlinear problems,high-order fixed-point fast sweeping WENO methods still require quite a large amount of computational costs.In this technical note,we apply sparse-grid techniques,an effective approximation tool for multidimensional problems,to fixed-point fast sweeping WENO methods for reducing their computational costs.Here,we focus on fixed-point fast sweeping WENO schemes with third-order accuracy(Zhang et al.2006[41]),for solving Eikonal equations,an important class of static Hamilton-Jacobi(H-J)equations.Numerical experiments on solving multidimensional Eikonal equations and a more general static H-J equation are performed to show that the sparse-grid computations of the fixed-point fast sweeping WENO schemes achieve large savings of CPU times on refined meshes,and at the same time maintain comparable accuracy and resolution with those on corresponding regular single grids.

High-Order Semi-Lagrangian WENO Schemes Based on Non-polynomial Space for the Vlasov Equation

In this paper,we present a semi-Lagrangian(SL)method based on a non-polynomial function space for solving the Vlasov equation.We fnd that a non-polynomial function based scheme is suitable to the specifcs of the target problems.To address issues that arise in phase space models of plasma problems,we develop a weighted essentially non-oscillatory(WENO)scheme using trigonometric polynomials.In particular,the non-polynomial WENO method is able to achieve improved accuracy near sharp gradients or discontinuities.Moreover,to obtain a high-order of accuracy in not only space but also time,it is proposed to apply a high-order splitting scheme in time.We aim to introduce the entire SL algorithm with high-order splitting in time and high-order WENO reconstruction in space to solve the Vlasov-Poisson system.Some numerical experiments are presented to demonstrate robustness of the proposed method in having a high-order of convergence and in capturing non-smooth solutions.A key observation is that the method can capture phase structure that require twice the resolution with a polynomial based method.In 6D,this would represent a signifcant savings.

New Finite Difference Mapped WENO Schemes with Increasingly High Order of Accuracy

In this paper,a new type of finite difference mapped weighted essentially non-oscillatory(MWENO)schemes with unequal-sized stencils,such as the seventh-order and ninthorder versions,is constructed for solving hyperbolic conservation laws.For the purpose of designing increasingly high-order finite difference WENO schemes,the equal-sized stencils are becoming more and more wider.The more we use wider candidate stencils,the bigger the probability of discontinuities lies in all stencils.Therefore,one innovation of these new WENO schemes is to introduce a new splitting stencil methodology to divide some fourpoint or five-point stencils into several smaller three-point stencils.By the usage of this new methodology in high-order spatial reconstruction procedure,we get different degree polynomials defined on these unequal-sized stencils,and calculate the linear weights,smoothness indicators,and nonlinear weights as specified in Jiang and Shu(J.Comput.Phys.126:202228,1996).Since the difference between the nonlinear weights and the linear weights is too big to keep the optimal order of accuracy in smooth regions,another crucial innovation is to present the new mapping functions which are used to obtain the mapped nonlinear weights and decrease the difference quantity between the mapped nonlinear weights and the linear weights,so as to keep the optimal order of accuracy in smooth regions.These new MWENO schemes can also be applied to compute some extreme examples,such as the double rarefaction wave problem,the Sedov blast wave problem,and the Leblanc problem with a normal CFL number.Extensive numerical results are provided to illustrate the good performance of the new finite difference MWENO schemes.

Efficient Sparse-Grid Implementation of a Fifth-Order Multi-resolution WENO Scheme for Hyperbolic Equations

High-order accurate weighted essentially non-oscillatory(WENO)schemes are a class of broadly applied numerical methods for solving hyperbolic partial differential equations(PDEs).Due to highly nonlinear property of the WENO algorithm,large amount of computational costs are required for solving multidimensional problems.In our previous work(Lu et al.in Pure Appl Math Q 14:57–86,2018;Zhu and Zhang in J Sci Comput 87:44,2021),sparse-grid techniques were applied to the classical finite difference WENO schemes in solving multidimensional hyperbolic equations,and it was shown that significant CPU times were saved,while both accuracy and stability of the classical WENO schemes were maintained for computations on sparse grids.In this technical note,we apply the approach to recently developed finite difference multi-resolution WENO scheme specifically the fifth-order scheme,which has very interesting properties such as its simplicity in linear weights’construction over a classical WENO scheme.Numerical experiments on solving high dimensional hyperbolic equations including Vlasov based kinetic problems are performed to demonstrate that the sparse-grid computations achieve large savings of CPU times,and at the same time preserve comparable accuracy and resolution with those on corresponding regular single grids.

Gas kinetic flux solver based finite volume weighted essentially non-oscillatory scheme for inviscid compressible flows

A high-order gas kinetic flux solver(GKFS)is presented for simulating inviscid compressible flows.The weighted essentially non-oscillatory(WENO)scheme on a uniform mesh in the finite volume formulation is combined with the circular function-based GKFS(C-GKFS)to capture more details of the flow fields with fewer grids.Different from most of the current GKFSs,which are constructed based on the Maxwellian distribution function or its equivalent form,the C-GKFS simplifies the Maxwellian distribution function into the circular function,which ensures that the Euler or Navier-Stokes equations can be recovered correctly.This improves the efficiency of the GKFS and reduces its complexity to facilitate the practical application of engineering.Several benchmark cases are simulated,and good agreement can be obtained in comparison with the references,which demonstrates that the high-order C-GKFS can achieve the desired accuracy.

High-order targeted essentially non-oscillatory scheme for two-fluid plasma model

The weakly ionized plasma flows in aerospace are commonly simulated by the single-fluid model,which cannot describe certain nonequilibrium phenomena by finite collisions of particles,decreasing the fidelity of the solution.Based on an alternative formulation of the targeted essentially non-oscillatory(TENO)scheme,a novel high-order numerical scheme is proposed to simulate the two-fluid plasmas problems.The numerical flux is constructed by the TENO interpolation of the solution and its derivatives,instead of being reconstructed from the physical flux.The present scheme is used to solve the two sets of Euler equations coupled with Maxwell's equations.The numerical methods are verified by several classical plasma problems.The results show that compared with the original TENO scheme,the present scheme can suppress the non-physical oscillations and reduce the numerical dissipation.

A New Hybrid WENO Scheme with the High-Frequency Region for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws

In this paper,a new kind of hybrid method based on the weighted essentially non-oscillatory(WENO)type reconstruction is proposed to solve hyperbolic conservation laws.Comparing the WENO schemes with/without hybridization,the hybrid one can resolve more details in the region containing multi-scale structures and achieve higher resolution in the smooth region;meanwhile,the essentially oscillation-free solution could also be obtained.By adapting the original smoothness indicator in the WENO reconstruction,the stencil is distinguished into three types:smooth,non-smooth,and high-frequency region.In the smooth region,the linear reconstruction is used and the non-smooth region with the WENO reconstruction.In the high-frequency region,the mixed scheme of the linear and WENO schemes is adopted with the smoothness amplification factor,which could capture high-frequency wave efficiently.Spectral analysis and numerous examples are presented to demonstrate the robustness and performance of the hybrid scheme for hyperbolic conservation laws.

采用重组模板的权重优化WENO-Z格式

针对精确模拟含激波等复杂流动结构的流场对高精度格式的低耗散低色散要求,基于5阶有限差分WENO-Z格式,提出一种模板重组技术。在计算WENO非线性权时,引入一个由3点模板重新组合的4点模板,优化原格式中各模板的权重分配,进而提出了两种改进WENO-Z格式。采用近似色散关系分析方法对改进前后格式色散与耗散特性进行了对比与分析。分析表明:两种改进格式耗散有不同程度的降低。数值实验表明:改进格式具有更优越的激波捕捉性能,对小尺度流场结构具有更高的分辨率。

Convergence to Steady-State Solutions of the New Type of High-Order Multi-resolution WENO Schemes: a Numerical Study

A new type of high-order multi-resolution weighted essentially non-oscillatory(WENO)schemes(Zhu and Shu in J Comput Phys,375:659-683,2018)is applied to solve for steady-state problems on structured meshes.Since the classical WENO schemes(Jiang and Shu in J Comput Phys,126:202-228,1996)might suffer from slight post-shock oscillations(which are responsible for the residue to hang at a truncation error level),this new type of high-order finite-difference and finite-volume multi-resolution WENO schemes is applied to control the slight post-shock oscillations and push the residue to settle down to machine zero in steady-state simulations.This new type of multi-resolution WENO schemes uses the same large stencils as that of the same order classical WENO schemes,could obtain fifth-order,seventh-order,and ninth-order in smooth regions,and could gradually degrade to first-order so as to suppress spurious oscillations near strong discontinuities.The linear weights of such new multi-resolution WENO schemes can be any positive numbers on the condition that their sum is one.This is the first time that a series of unequal-sized hierarchical central spatial stencils are used in designing high-order finitedifference and finite-volume WENO schemes for solving steady-state problems.In comparison with the classical fifth-order finite-difference and finite-volume WENO schemes,the residue of these new high-order multi-resolution WENO schemes can converge to a tiny number close to machine zero for some benchmark steady-state problems.

一种基于欧拉方程通量分裂的五阶有限差分共权多分辨率WENO格式

本文研究了欧拉方程的高精度数值解法,在多分辨率WENO数值格式中引入了共权思想,获得了一种新的五阶有限差分共权多分辨率WENO格式.数值实验表明,该方法在解的光滑区域能获得一致的高精度,在强间断附近能保持数值解基本无振荡的性质,从而验证算法的有效性.

Improved Weighted Essentially Non-Oscillatory Schemes by Mixed Stencils

Improved Weighted Essentially Non-oscillatory Scheme is a high order finite volume method. The mixed stencils can be obtained by a combination of r + 1 order and r order stencils. We improve the weights by the mapping method. The restriction that conventional ENO or WENO schemes only use r order stencils, is removed. Higher resolution can be achieved by introducing the r + 1 order stencils. This method is verified by three cases, i.e. the interaction of a moving shock with a density wave problem, the interacting blast wave problem and the double mach reflection problem. The numerical results show that the Improved Weighted Essential Non-oscillatory method is a stable, accurate high-resolution finite volume scheme.

SOME WEIGHT-TYPE HIGH-RESOLUTION DIFFERENCE SCHEMES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS

By the aid of an idea of the weighted ENO schemes, some weight-type high-resolution difference schemes with different orders of accuracy are presented in this paper by using suitable weights instead of the minmod functions appearing in various TVD schemes. Numerical comparisons between the weighted schemes and the non-weighted schemes have been done for scalar equation, one-dimensional Euler equations, two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations and parabolized Navier-Stokes equations.

7阶WENO-S格式的计算效率研究

WENO-S格式是一类适合于含间断问题数值模拟的加权本质无振荡格式.这类格式的光滑因子满足对单频波为常数,这使得其近似色散关系与线性基底格式一致,并且具有良好的小尺度波动模拟能力.计算效率是数值方法性能指标的一个重要方面.由于WENO-S格式的光滑因子在各子模板上的计算公式除下标不同外形式一致,在计算线性对流方程相邻数值通量时,部分光滑因子完全相同.为此提出一种消除WENO-S格式冗余光滑因子计算的方法.该方法要求一条网格线上用于重构或插值的量可以表示为一个序列.基于此要求分析其对于几种不同物理问题的可行性和使用方法.以7阶WENO-S格式为例介绍了格式性质和去除冗余光滑因子计算的方法.该方法中预先计算和存储一条网格线上的所有光滑因子,在网格点较多的情况下,光滑因子计算次数约为原7阶WENO-S格式的1/4.对一维对流问题、球面波传播问题、二维旋转问题、二维小扰动传播问题及一维和二维无黏流动问题进行了数值模拟.结果表明该格式对多种流动结构具有良好的捕捉能力,并且同时具有良好的计算效率,去除冗余计算后又降低了约20%的计算时间.

A simple algorithm to improve the performance of the WENO scheme on non-uniform grids

This paper presents a simple approach for improving the performance of the weighted essentially nonoscillatory(WENO) finite volume scheme on non-uniform grids. This technique relies on the reformulation of the fifthorder WENO-JS(WENO scheme presented by Jiang and Shu in J. Comput. Phys. 126:202–228, 1995) scheme designed on uniform grids in terms of one cell-averaged value and its left and/or right interfacial values of the dependent variable.The effect of grid non-uniformity is taken into consideration by a proper interpolation of the interfacial values. On nonuniform grids, the proposed scheme is much more accurate than the original WENO-JS scheme, which was designed for uniform grids. When the grid is uniform, the resulting scheme reduces to the original WENO-JS scheme. In the meantime,the proposed scheme is computationally much more efficient than the fifth-order WENO scheme designed specifically for the non-uniform grids. A number of numerical test cases are simulated to verify the performance of the present scheme.

An Application of Finite Volume WENO Schemeto Numerical Modeling of Tidal Current

A depth-averaged 2-D numerical model for unsteady tidal flow in estuaries is established by use of the finite volume WENO scheme which maintains both uniform high order accuracy and an essentially non-oscillatory shock transition on unstructured triangular grid. The third order TVD Range-Kutta method is used for time discretization. The model has been firstly tested against four cases： 1） tidal forcing, 2） seiche oscillation, 3） wind setup in a closed bay, and 4） onedimensional dam-break water flow. The results obtained in the present study compare well with those obtained from the corresponding analytic solutions idealized for the above four cases. The model is then applied to the simulation of tidal circulation in the Yangpu Bay, and detailed model calibration and verification have been conducted with measured tidal current in the spring tide, middle tide, and neap tide. The overall performance of the model is in qualitative agreement with the data observed in 2005, and it can be used to calculate the flow in estuaries and coastal waters.

A numerical study for WENO scheme-based on different lattice Boltzmann flux solver for compressible flows

In this paper,the finite difference weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) scheme is incorporated into the recently developed four kinds of lattice Boltzmann flux solver (LBFS) to simulate compressible flows,including inviscid LBFS Ⅰ,viscous LBFS Ⅱ,hybrid LBFS Ⅲ and hybrid LBFS Ⅳ.Hybrid LBFS can automatically realize the switch between inviscid LBFS Ⅰ and viscous LBFS Ⅱ through introducing a switch function.The resultant hybrid WENO-LBFS scheme absorbs the advantages of WENO scheme and hybrid LBFS.We investigate the performance of WENO scheme based on four kinds of LBFS systematically.Numerical results indicate that the devopled hybrid WENO-LBFS scheme has high accuracy,high resolution and no oscillations.It can not only accurately calculate smooth solutions,but also can effectively capture contact discontinuities and strong shock waves.

A 3rd Order WENO GLM-MHD Scheme for Magnetic Reconnection

A new numerical scheme of 3rd order Weighted Essentially Non-Oscillatory (WENO) type for 2.5D mixed GLM-MHD in Cartesian coordinates is proposed. The MHD equations are modified by combining the arguments as by Dellar and Dedner et al to couple the divergence constraint with the evolution equations using a Generalized Lagrange Multiplier (GLM). Moreover, the magnetohydrodynamic part of the GLM-MHD system is still in conservation form. Meanwhile, this method is very easy to add to an existing code since the underlying MHD solver does not have to be modified. To show the validation and capacity of its application to MHD problem modelling, interaction between a magnetosonic shock and a denser cloud and magnetic reconnection problems are used to verify this new MHD code. The numerical tests for 2D Orszag and Tang's MHD vortex, interaction between a magnetosonic shock and a denser cloud and magnetic reconnection problems show that the third order WENO MHD solvers are robust and yield reliable results by the new mixed GLM or the mixed EGLM correction here even if it can not be shown that how the divergence errors are transported as well as damped as done for one dimensional ideal MHD by Dedner et al.

Hypersonic Shock Wave/Boundary Layer Interactions by a Third-Order Optimized Symmetric WENO Scheme

A novel third-order optimized symmetric weighted essentially non-oscillatory(WENO-OS3)scheme is used to simulate the hypersonic shock wave/boundary layer interactions.Firstly,the scheme is presented with the achievement of low dissipation in smooth region and robust shock-capturing capabilities in discontinuities.The Maxwell slip boundary conditions are employed to consider the rarefied effect near the surface.Secondly,several validating tests are given to show the good resolution of the WENO-OS3 scheme and the feasibility of the Maxwell slip boundary conditions.Finally,hypersonic flows around the hollow cylinder truncated flare(HCTF)and the25°/55°sharp double cone are studied.Discussions are made on the characteristics of the hypersonic shock wave/boundary layer interactions with and without the consideration of the slip effect.The results indicate that the scheme has a good capability in predicting heat transfer with a high resolution for describing fluid structures.With the slip boundary conditions,the separation region at the corner is smaller and the prediction is more accurate than that with no-slip boundary conditions.

WENO格式的一种新型光滑因子及其应用

光滑因子是构造WENO格式的关键,决定了WENO格式能否达到最优收敛精度以及在间断附近能否保持本质无振荡特性。针对广泛应用的五阶WENO格式,采用算子函数近似导数关系的方法,设计了一种新型光滑因子。在间断区域,与传统的光滑因子相比,新型光滑因子对间断的识别更准确。在光滑区域,新型光滑因子使得新型WENO格式的非线性权更接近线性权。理论分析和数值验证表明新型WENO格式即使在一阶临界点也能保持一致五阶精度。一维典型激波问题的数值结果表明,与现有WENO格式相比,新型WENO格式提高了短波的分辨率,降低了格式的耗散,同时能够准确识别间断。对于典型包含激波和剪切层的流动问题,新型WENO格式不仅能够准确地捕捉强激波,而且能够精细模拟剪切层和声波等流场结构。

Rotor wake capture improvement based on high-order spatially accurate schemes and chimera grids

A high-order upwind scheme has been developed to capture the vortex wake of a helicopter rotor in the hover based on chimera grids. In this paper, an improved fifth-order weighted essentially non-oscillatory （WENO） scheme is adopted to interpolate the higher-order left and right states across a cell interface with the Roe Riemann solver updating inviscid flux, and is compared with the monotone upwind scheme for scalar conservation laws （MUSCL）. For profitably capturing the wake and enforcing the period boundary condition, the computation regions of flows are discretized by using the struc- tured chimera grids composed of a fine rotor grid and a cylindrical background grid. In the background grid, the mesh cells located in the wake regions are refined after the so- lution reaches the approximate convergence. Considering the interpolation characteristic of the WENO scheme, three layers of the hole boundary and the interpolation boundary are searched. The performance of the schemes is investigated in a transonic flow and a subsonic flow around the hovering rotor. The results reveal that the present approach has great capabilities in capturing the vortex wake with high resolution, and the WENO scheme has much lower numerical dissipation in comparison with the MUSCL scheme.