Improvements of the fifth-order WENO-JS-type scheme with normalized smoothing factor for gas dynamic Euler equations

Abstract

In this paper, we developed a novel high-resolution fifth-order WENO-JS-type scheme that can achieve the optimal accuracy order at or near the arbitrary order critical points. To enhance the accuracy of the weight function of WENO-JS, we normalized the local smoothness factor to obtain a series of normalized variables. By introducing a mapping function that can increase the accuracy of the normalization variables, we developed a new normalized WENO-JS-type scheme called WENO-NSI. The WENO-NSI scheme can improve the shock capture ability by selecting the apposite parameter λ in the mapping function. Numerical experiments of one- and two-dimensional gas dynamic Euler equations for the present WENO-NSI scheme are compared with those of the WENO-JS/Z/M/D/IM and TENO-Z schemes. The results show that the present scheme can achieve theoretical accuracy at or near the arbitrary order critical points, and it has a better shock capturing ability than other schemes.