A new type of modified MR-WENO schemes with new troubled cell indicators for solving hyperbolic conservation laws in multi-dimensions

Abstract

In this paper, a new type of increasingly high-order modified multi-resolution weighted essentially non-oscillatory (MMR-WENO) schemes with new troubled cell indicators is designed in the finite difference framework for solving hyperbolic conservation laws in one, two, and three dimensions. It is a first time to design new troubled cell indicators that based on two high-degree reconstruction polynomials, which are defined on the three-point, five-point, seven-point, and nine-point spatial stencils, respectively. Such new troubled cell indicators can automatically identify the discontinuous solutions without manually adjusting the parameters related to the problems. Subsequently, a series of MMR-WENO schemes are designed by using these new troubled cell indicators, which use the simple linear upwind schemes in smooth areas and the sophisticated MR-WENO schemes in discontinuous areas, thus achieving the goal of inheriting the excellent characteristics of original MR-WENO schemes while reducing computational costs. The new modified methodology is divided into two parts: if all extreme points of two reconstruction polynomials defined on the big spatial stencil are outward the smallest interval [xi−1/2,xi+1/2], the numerical flux is straightforwardly approximated by a high-degree reconstruction polynomial and the approximation has a high-order accuracy. Otherwise, the high-order MR-WENO spatial reconstruction procedures are adopted. The main benefits of new MMR-WENO schemes are their robustness and efficiency in comparison to original MR-WENO schemes, since the MMR-WENO schemes could save at most 63%-79% CPU time than the same-order MR-WENO schemes do for some numerical examples.