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A Symmetric Direct Discontinuous Galerkin Method for the Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations

Huiqiang Yue, Jian Cheng & Tiegang Liu

Commun. Comput. Phys., 22 (2017), pp. 375-392.

Published online: 2018-04

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In this work, we investigate the numerical approximation of the compressible Navier-Stokes equations under the framework of discontinuous Galerkin methods. For discretization of the viscous and heat fluxes, we extend and apply the symmetric direct discontinuous Galerkin (SDDG) method which is originally introduced for scalar diffusion problems. The original compressible Navier-Stokes equations are rewritten into an equivalent form via homogeneity tensors. Then, the numerical diffusive fluxes are constructed from the weak formulation of primal equations directly without converting the second-order equations to a first-order system. Additional numerical flux functions involving the jump of second order derivative of test functions are added to the original direct discontinuous Galerkin (DDG) discretization. A number of numerical tests are carried out to assess the practical performance of the SDDG method for the two dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes equations. These numerical results obtained demonstrate that the SDDG method can achieve the optimal order of accuracy. Especially, compared with the well-established symmetric interior penalty (SIP) method [18], the SDDG method can maintain the expected optimal order of convergence with a smaller penalty coefficient.

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@Article{CiCP-22-375, author = {Huiqiang Yue, Jian Cheng and Tiegang Liu}, title = {A Symmetric Direct Discontinuous Galerkin Method for the Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations}, journal = {Communications in Computational Physics}, year = {2018}, volume = {22}, number = {2}, pages = {375--392}, abstract = {

In this work, we investigate the numerical approximation of the compressible Navier-Stokes equations under the framework of discontinuous Galerkin methods. For discretization of the viscous and heat fluxes, we extend and apply the symmetric direct discontinuous Galerkin (SDDG) method which is originally introduced for scalar diffusion problems. The original compressible Navier-Stokes equations are rewritten into an equivalent form via homogeneity tensors. Then, the numerical diffusive fluxes are constructed from the weak formulation of primal equations directly without converting the second-order equations to a first-order system. Additional numerical flux functions involving the jump of second order derivative of test functions are added to the original direct discontinuous Galerkin (DDG) discretization. A number of numerical tests are carried out to assess the practical performance of the SDDG method for the two dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes equations. These numerical results obtained demonstrate that the SDDG method can achieve the optimal order of accuracy. Especially, compared with the well-established symmetric interior penalty (SIP) method [18], the SDDG method can maintain the expected optimal order of convergence with a smaller penalty coefficient.

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TY - JOUR T1 - A Symmetric Direct Discontinuous Galerkin Method for the Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations AU - Huiqiang Yue, Jian Cheng & Tiegang Liu JO - Communications in Computational Physics VL - 2 SP - 375 EP - 392 PY - 2018 DA - 2018/04 SN - 22 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.OA-2016-0080 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/cicp/11302.html KW - AB -

In this work, we investigate the numerical approximation of the compressible Navier-Stokes equations under the framework of discontinuous Galerkin methods. For discretization of the viscous and heat fluxes, we extend and apply the symmetric direct discontinuous Galerkin (SDDG) method which is originally introduced for scalar diffusion problems. The original compressible Navier-Stokes equations are rewritten into an equivalent form via homogeneity tensors. Then, the numerical diffusive fluxes are constructed from the weak formulation of primal equations directly without converting the second-order equations to a first-order system. Additional numerical flux functions involving the jump of second order derivative of test functions are added to the original direct discontinuous Galerkin (DDG) discretization. A number of numerical tests are carried out to assess the practical performance of the SDDG method for the two dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes equations. These numerical results obtained demonstrate that the SDDG method can achieve the optimal order of accuracy. Especially, compared with the well-established symmetric interior penalty (SIP) method [18], the SDDG method can maintain the expected optimal order of convergence with a smaller penalty coefficient.

Huiqiang Yue, Jian Cheng and Tiegang Liu. (2018). A Symmetric Direct Discontinuous Galerkin Method for the Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations. Communications in Computational Physics. 22 (2). 375-392. doi:10.4208/cicp.OA-2016-0080
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