Entropy stable spectral collocation schemes for the Navier-Stokes Equations: Discontinuous interfaces

Mark H. Carpenter, Travis C. Fisher, Eric J. Nielsen, Steven H. Frankel

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Abstract

Nonlinear entropy stability and a summation-by-parts framework are used to derive provably stable, polynomial-based spectral collocation element methods of arbitrary order for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations. The new methods are similar to strong form, nodal discontinuous Galerkin spectral elements but conserve entropy for the Euler equations and are entropy stable for the Navier-Stokes equations. Shock capturing follows immediately by combining them with a dissipative companion operator via a comparison approach. Smooth and discontinuous test cases are presented that demonstrate their efficacy.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)B835-B867
JournalSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
Volume36
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Conservation
  • Entropy stability
  • High-order finite-element methods
  • Navier-Stokes
  • SBP-SAT
  • Skew-symmetric

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computational Mathematics
  • Applied Mathematics

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