Adaptive Artificial Anti-Diffusion Methods for Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws

We introduce new adaptive artificial anti-diffusion (AAAD) methods for one- and two-dimensional hyperbolic systems of conservation laws.

The key idea is to reduce the amount of numerical dissipation present in a given numerical method by adding an anti-diffusion (AD) term acting in linearly degenerate fields only.

This way, the resolution of contact waves can be improved without risking oscillations, which may be caused if the AD acts in nonlinear fields as well.

The AD coefficients are selected adaptively: they are supposed to be proportional to the mesh size near the contact waves to enhance the resolution and to be very small in the smooth parts of the computed solution to ensure a sufficiently high (formal) order of accuracy there.

The proposed AAAD methods are realized using either the second-order central-upwind numerical fluxes or their fifth-order extensions implemented within the alternative weighted essentially non-oscillatory (A-WENO) framework.

We test the proposed schemes on a series of benchmarks for the one- and two-dimensional Euler equations of gas dynamics and the obtained results demonstrate the robustness and high resolution of the new AAAD methods.