A compact high-order and positivity-preserving active flux method for compressible Navier--Stokes equations on Cartesian meshes

Junming Duan; Wasilij Barsukow; Christian Klingenberg

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A compact high-order and positivity-preserving active flux method for compressible Navier--Stokes equations on Cartesian meshes

Junming Duan·Wasilij Barsukow·Christian Klingenberg

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This paper develops a compact fourth-order positivity-preserving active flux (AF) method for the one- and two-dimensional compressible Navier--Stokes equations on Cartesian meshes. The method retains the cell averages and shared point values of the standard third-order AF method as its degrees of freedom. To avoid the order reduction that can arise when diffusion is discretized using operators from the standard third-order AF method, while maintaining compactness, the divergence of the viscous flux is discretized directly using compact fourth-order operators. For the inviscid part, incorporating a downwind point value into the biased stencil yields fourth-order accuracy. A monolithic flux limiting blends high-order total numerical fluxes with low-order positivity-preserving counterparts, treating the inviscid and viscous fluxes jointly while maintaining local conservation. Together with a scaling limiter for point values, this procedure preserves density and pressure positivity for both cell averages and point values. Numerical experiments demonstrate fourth-order convergence, positivity preservation, and accurate resolution of shocks and viscous flow structures. For the two-dimensional viscous shock tube, a comparison with a discontinuous Galerkin method shows improved computational efficiency in resolving complex interaction of shock waves and boundary layers.

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Junming Duan, Wasilij Barsukow, Christian Klingenberg. 2026-09-24. A compact high-order and positivity-preserving active flux method for compressible Navier--Stokes equations on Cartesian meshes. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.29081

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