LINEARIZED FORM OF IMPLICIT TVD SCHEMES FOR THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL EULER AND NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS

Authors

• Helen C. Yee, NASA Ames Research CenterFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

4-1986

Citation

Computers & Mathematics with Applications Volume 12, Issues 4–5, Part A, April–May 1986, Pages 413-432

Comments

U.S. government work.

Abstract

Linearized alternating direction implicit (ADI) forms of a class of total variation diminishing (TVD) schemes for the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations have been developed. These schemes are based on the second-order-accurate TVD schemes for hyperbolic conservation laws developed by Harten[ 1.2]. They have the property of not generating spurious oscillations across shocks and contact discontinuities. In general, shocks can be captured within 1-2 grid points. These schemes are relatively simple to understand and easy to implement into a new or existing computer code. One can modify a standard three-point central-difference code by simply changing the conventional numerical dissipation term into the one designed for the TVD scheme. For steady-state applications, the only difference in computation is that the current schemes require a more elaborate dissipation term for the explicit operator: no extra computation is required for the implicit operator. Numerical experiments with the proposed algorithms on a variety of steady-state airfoil problems illustrate the versatility of the schemes.