Efficient high-order gradient-based reconstruction for compressible flows

Abstract

This paper extends the gradient-based reconstruction approach of Chamarthi [1] to genuine high-order accuracy for inviscid test cases involving smooth flows. A seventh-order accurate scheme is derived using the same stencil as of the explicit fourth-order scheme proposed in Ref. [1], which also has low dissipation properties. The proposed method is seventh-order accurate under the assumption that the variables at the cell centres are point values. A problem-independent discontinuity detector is used to obtain high-order accuracy. Accordingly, primitive or conservative variable reconstruction is performed around regions of discontinuities, whereas smooth solution regions apply flux reconstruction. The proposed approach can still share the derivatives between the inviscid and viscous fluxes, which is the main idea behind the gradient-based reconstruction. Several standard benchmark test cases are presented. The proposed method is more efficient than the seventh-order weighted compact nonlinear scheme (WCNS) for the test cases considered in this paper.