Hybrid Discontinuous Galerkin/Finite Volume Method with Subcell Resolution for Shocked Flows

Abstract

A hybrid discontinuous Galerkin (DG)/finite volume (FV) method under the multistage boundary variation diminishing (BVD) reconstruction paradigm is developed for shocked inviscid and viscous flows. The methodology uses high-order unlimited polynomials and the THINC (which stands for tangent of hyperbola for interface capturing) function as the candidate reconstruction functions to perform FV computation on embedded subcells. The reconstruction scheme on the FV subcells can be designed in a way to keep the resulting approach as compact as the underlying DG method. The reconstruction information based on the modified BVD selection algorithm has been applied as an indicating strategy so that no additional discontinuity indicator is required for the hybrid DG/FV computation. The designed approach has been investigated through the coupling with the explicit and implicit time discretization scheme for both inviscid and viscous flows. Numerical results demonstrate the high-fidelity characteristics of the method by using a much coarser grid to capture both the discontinuity and the smooth flow structure with high resolution.