Hermite WENO schemes and their application as limiters for Runge–Kutta discontinuous Galerkin method: one-dimensional case

Abstract

In this paper, a class of fifth-order weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) schemes based on Hermite polynomials, termed HWENO (Hermite WENO) schemes, for solving one-dimensional nonlinear hyperbolic conservation law systems is presented. The construction of HWENO schemes is based on a finite volume formulation, Hermite interpolation, and nonlinearly stable Runge–Kutta methods. The idea of the reconstruction in the HWENO schemes comes from the original WENO schemes, however both the function and its first derivative values are evolved in time and used in the reconstruction, while only the function values are evolved and used in the original WENO schemes. Comparing with the original WENO schemes of Liu et al. [J. Comput. Phys. 115 (1994) 200] and Jiang and Shu [J. Comput. Phys. 126 (1996) 202], one major advantage of HWENO schemes is its compactness in the reconstruction. For example, five points are needed in the stencil for a fifth-order WENO (WENO5) reconstruction, while only three points are needed for a fifth-order HWENO (HWENO5) reconstruction. For this reason, the HWENO finite volume methodology is more suitable to serve as limiters for the Runge–Kutta discontinuous Galerkin (RKDG) methods, than the original WENO finite volume methodology. Such applications in one space dimension is also developed in this paper.