Entropy stable DGSEM for nonlinear hyperbolic systems in nonconservative form with application to two-phase flows

Abstract

In this work, we consider the discretization of nonlinear hyperbolic systems in nonconservative form with the high-order discontinuous Galerkin spectral element method (DGSEM) based on collocation of quadrature and interpolation points (Kopriva and Gassner (2010) [39]). We present a general framework for the design of such schemes that satisfy a semi-discrete entropy inequality for a given convex entropy function at any approximation order. The framework is closely related to the one introduced for conservation laws by Fisher and Carpenter (2013) [27] and Gassner (2013) [32] and relies on the modification of the integral over discretization elements where we replace the physical fluxes by entropy conservative numerical fluxes from Castro et al. (2013) [12], while entropy stable numerical fluxes are used at element interfaces. Time discretization is performed with strong-stability preserving Runge–Kutta schemes. The present method is first validated on the Burgers and Euler equations in nonconservative form. We then use this framework for the discretization of two-phase flow systems in one space-dimension: a 2×2 system with a nonconservative product associated to a linearly-degenerate field for which the DGSEM fails to capture the physically relevant solution, and the isentropic Baer–Nunziato model. For the latter, we derive conditions on the numerical parameters of the discrete scheme to further keep positivity of the partial densities and a maximum principle on the void fractions. Numerical experiments support the conclusions of the present analysis and highlight stability and robustness of the present schemes.