On Performance of Methods with Third- and Fifth-Order Compact Upwind Differencing

Abstract

The difference schemes for fluid dynamics type of equations based on third- and fifth-order Compact Upwind Differencing (CUD) are considered. To validate their properties following from a linear analysis, calculations were carried out using the inviscid and viscous Burgers' equation as well as the compressible Navier–Stokes equation written in the conservative form for curvilinear coordinates. In the latter case, transonic cascade flow was chosen as a representative example. The performance of the CUD methods was estimated by investigating mesh convergence of the solutions and comparing with the results of second-order schemes. It is demonstrated that the oscillation-free steep gradients solutions obtained without using smoothing techniques can provide considerable increase of accuracy even when exploiting coarse meshes.