An arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian discontinuous Galerkin method for two‐dimensional compressible flows on adaptive quadrilateral meshes

Abstract

AbstractIn this article, a discontinuous Galerkin (DG) scheme on the adaptive quadrilateral meshes is proposed to simulate two‐dimensional compressible flows in the direct arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian (ALE) framework. In our scheme, the Euler equations are discretized in the reference element with the help of a bilinear map. A kind of Taylor expansion basis functions in the reference element is used to construct the interpolation polynomials of variables. We describe the property that the material derivatives of the basis functions used in the DG discretization are equal to zero, with which the scheme is simplified. Furthermore, the mesh velocity in our ALE framework is obtained by implementing the approach of mesh movement based on the variational principle from [Adaptive mesh methods for one‐ and two‐dimensional hyperbolic conservation laws. SIAM J Numer Anal. 2003;41:487–515]. This approach of mesh movement automatically concentrates the mesh nodes near the regions with large gradient values of the variables and can greatly improve the resolution of the solution near these regions. In addition, a WENO (weighted essentially non‐oscillatory) reconstruction helps our scheme remove the numerical oscillations. Some numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the accuracy, high resolution, and robustness of our scheme.