Compact high-order gas-kinetic scheme for direct numerical simulation of compressible turbulent flows

Abstract

In this paper, the three-dimensional fully compact high-order gas-kinetic scheme (HGKS) is proposed for the direct numerical simulation of compressible turbulent flows. Because of the high-order gas evolution model, the numerical fluxes as well as the point-wise conservative variables can be evaluated from the time-accurate gas distribution function at the cell interface. As a result, both the cell-averaged variables and their cell-averaged gradients can be updated inside each cell. Based on the cell averaged values and their gradients, the compact Hermite weighted essentially non-oscillatory (HWENO) scheme is developed, in which the dimension-by-dimension reconstruction is used for three-dimensional turbulences. In both normal and tangential directions, the fifth-order HWENO reconstruction is adopted. Compared with the classical WENO scheme, the stencil for the HWENO scheme only contains 33 cells for each cell. To achieve the temporal accuracy, the two-stage fourth-order temporal discretization is used. For the evaluation of point-wise variables, the simplified third-order gas-kinetic solver is used. Several classical benchmark problems are simulated, which validate the accuracy, resolution, and robustness of compact HGKS. As a comparison, the numerical results of HGKS using non-compact WENO reconstruction are also provided. Due to the compact stencil, the compact HGKS has a favorable performance for turbulence simulation in resolving the multi-scale structures.