Uniformly second-order-accurate essentially nonoscillatory schemes for the Euler equations

Abstract

Two time-level explicit and implicit finite-difference shock-capturin g schemes based on the characteristic flux difference splitting method and the modified flux approach with the essentially nonoscillatory (ENO) property of Harten and Osher have been developed for the two-dimensional Euler equations. The methods are conservative, uniformly second-order accurate in time and space, even at local extrema. General coordinate systems are used to treat complex geometries. Standard alternating direction implicit approximate factorization is used for constructing implicit schemes. Numerical results have been obtained for unsteady shock wave reflection around general two-dimensional blunt bodies and for steady transonic flows over a circular arc bump in a channel. Properties of ENO schemes as applied to two-dimensional flows with multiple embedded discontinuities are discussed. Comparisons of the performance between the present ENO schemes and our previous total variation diminishing schemes is also included.