A third-order entropy stable scheme for hyperbolic conservation laws

Abstract

A third-order entropy stable scheme for nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws is proposed here. This scheme contains two main ingredients: a fourth-order entropy conservative flux and a third-order numerical diffusion operator. A piecewise-quadratic reconstruction from pointwise values is developed in order to approximate the third-order dissipative term. To guarantee a non-oscillating property, a nonlinear limiter is employed and, furthermore, the scheme is proven to be entropy stable. Finally, numerical experiments are presented and demonstrate the accuracy, high-resolution, and robustness of our method.