Numerical Solution of the Advection Equation on Unstructured Spherical Grids with Logarithmic Reconstruction

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Description: Oswald Knoth, (Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig)
Tuesday 25 September 2012, 09:25-09:50
 
Created: 2012-09-26 16:27
Collection: Multiscale Numerics for the Atmosphere and Ocean
Publisher: Isaac Newton Institute
Copyright: Oswald Knoth
Language: eng (English)
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Abstract: There are numerous approaches for solving hyperbolic differential equations in the context of finite volume methods. One popular approach is the limiter free Local-Double-Logarithmic-Reconstruction (LDLR) of Artebrant and Schroll. The aim of this work is to construct a three-dimensional reconstructing function based on the LDLR for solving the advection equation on unstructured spherical grids. The new method should preserve the characteristics of the LDLR. That means in particular a reconstruction without use of limiters and with a small stencil of only the nearest neighbors of a particular cell. Also local extrema should be conserved while the local variation of the reconstruction within one cell should be under control.

We propose an ansatz which works on unstructured polyhedral grids. To come up to this, an ansatz function with one logarithmic expression for each face of the polyghedron is constructed. Required gradients at cell face midpoints are determined by use of the Multi-Point-Flux-Approximation (MPFA) method. Further derivative information are obtained with the help of special barycentric coordinates. All necessary integrals of the ansatz functions can be computed exactly. The spatially discretized equations are combined with explicit Runge-Kutta methods to advance the solution in time.

The new advection procedure is numerically evaluated with standard test cases from the literature on different unstructured spherical grids.
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