A Riemann problem based method for solving compressible and incompressible flows

Abstract

A Riemann problem based method for solving two-medium flow including compressible and incompressible regions is presented. The material interface is advanced by front tracking method and the material interface boundary conditions are defined by modified ghost fluid method. A coupled compressible and incompressible Riemann problem constructed in the normal direction of the material interface is proposed to predict the interfacial states. With the ghost fluid states, the compressible and incompressible flows are solved by discontinuous Galerkin method. An incompressible discontinuous Galerkin method with nonuniform time step is also deduced. For shock wave formed in compressible flow, the numerical errors for the ghost fluid method in earlier works are analyzed and discussed in the numerical examples. It shows that the proposed method can provide reasonable results including shock wave location.