An efficient and conservative hybrid method for solving multidimensional conservation laws

Abstract

AbstractWe have developed an efficient hybrid technique for solving nonlinear conservation laws. Previous hybrid techniques have been accurate but lacked the property of conservation, whereas our technique is both accurate and conservative. To achieve this, we superimposed all possible stencils for ENO polynomials and weighted the value from each cells in a way that depends on the numerical solution. Computational efficiency relies on switching from central data where the exact solution is smooth to noncentral data near discontinuities. We prove the theoretical consistency of the technique and discuss the connection with ENO and WENO methods. We introduce time dependency by combining our method with Runge‐Kutta schemes that are TVD preserving. We have verified our technique experimentally by solving a suite of test problems with convex and non‐convex flux functions taken from the literature. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 2009