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In this paper, we describe some existing slope limiters (Cockburn and Shu’s slope limiter and Hoteit’s slope limiter) for the two-dimensional Runge–Kutta discontinuous Galerkin (RKDG) method on arbitrary unstructured triangular grids. We describe the strategies for detecting discontinuities and for limiting spurious oscillations near such discontinuities, when solving hyperbolic systems of conservation laws by high-order discontinuous Galerkin methods. The disadvantage of these slope limiters is that they depend on a positive constant, which is, for specific hydraulic problems, difficult to estimate in order to eliminate oscillations near discontinuities without decreasing the high-order accuracy of the scheme in the smooth regions. We introduce the idea of a simple modification of Cockburn and Shu’s slope limiter to avoid the use of this constant number. This modification consists in: slopes are limited so that the solution at the integration points is in the range spanned by the neighboring solution averages. Numerical results are presented for a nonlinear system: the shallow water equations. Four hydraulic problems of discontinuous solutions of two-dimensional shallow water are presented. The idealized dam break problem, the oblique hydraulic jump problem, flow in a channel with concave bed and the dam break problem in a converging–diverging channel are solved by using the different slope limiters. Numerical comparisons on unstructured meshes show a superior accuracy with the modified slope limiter. Moreover, it does not require the choice of any constant number for the limiter condition.
Author(s): Ghostine R, Kesserwani G, Mosé R, Vazquez J, Ghenaim A
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids
Year: 2009
Volume: 59
Issue: 4
Pages: 423-442
ISSN (print): 0271-2091
ISSN (electronic): 1097-0363
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fld.1823
DOI: 10.1002/fld.1823
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