Comparative study of numerical schemes for strong shock simulation using the Euler equations

Abstract

A numerical study of extremely strong shocks was presented. Various types of numerical schemes with first-order accuracy and higherorder accuracy with adaptive stencils were implemented to solve the one and twodimensional Euler equations based on the explicit finite difference method, including Roe’s first-order upwind, Steger-Warming Flux Vector splitting (FVS), Sweby’s flux-limited and Essentially Non-oscillatory (ENO) scheme. The result comparisons were carried out to discuss which scheme is the most suitable for strong shock problem. The dissipative nature of the firstorder scheme can be easily seen from the numerical solutions. High order ENO scheme had the best resolution for the case having weak discontinuity, but it over- predicted the shock wave location for the case of strong discontinuity.