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Ruo Li

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arXiv2023

An arbitrary order Reconstructed Discontinuous Approximation to Biharmonic Interface Problem

We present an arbitrary order discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for solving the biharmonic interface problem on the unfitted mesh. The approximation space is constructed by a patch reconstruction process with at most one degree freedom per element. The discrete problem is based on the symmetric interior penalty method and the jump conditions are weakly imposed by the Nitsche's technique. The C^2-smooth interface is allowed to intersect elements in a very general fashion and the stability near the interface is naturally ensured by the patch reconstruction. We prove the optimal a priori error estimate under the energy norm and the L^2 norm. Numerical results are provided to verify the theoretical analysis.

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arXiv2023

Slip and Jump Coefficients for General Gas-Surface Interactions According to the Moment Method

We develop a moment method based on the Hermite series of arbitrary order to calculate viscous-slip, thermal-slip, and temperature-jump coefficients for general gas-surface scattering kernels. Under some usual assumptions of scattering kernels, the solvability is obtained by showing the positive definiteness of the symmetric coefficient matrix in the boundary conditions. For gas flows with the Cercignani-Lampis gas-surface interaction and inverse-power-law intermolecular potentials, the model can capture the slip and jump coefficients accurately with elegant analytic expressions. On the one hand, the proposed method can apply to the cases of arbitrary order moments with increasing accuracy. On the other hand, the explicit formulae for low-order situations are simpler and more accurate than some existing results in references. Therefore, one may apply these formulae in slip and jump conditions to improve the accuracy of macroscopic fluid dynamic models for gas flows.

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arXiv2022

Linear Moment Models to Approximate Knudsen Layers

We propose a well-posed Maxwell-type boundary condition for the linear moment system in half-space. As a reduction of the Boltzmann equation, the moment equations are available to model Knudsen layers near a solid wall, where proper boundary conditions should be prescribed. Utilizing an orthogonal decomposition, we separate the part with a damping term from the system and then impose a new class of Maxwell-type boundary conditions on it. Due to the new boundary condition, we show that the half-space boundary value problem admits a unique solution with explicit expressions. Instantly, the well-posedness of the linear moment system is achieved. We apply the procedure to classical flow problems with the Shakhov collision term, such as the velocity slip and temperature jump problems. The model can capture Knudsen layers with very high accuracy using only a few moments.

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arXiv2022

Construction of boundary conditions for Navier-Stokes equations from the moment system

This work concerns with boundary conditions (BCs) of the linearized moment system for rarefied gases. As the Knudsen number is sufficiently small, we analyze the boundary-layer behaviors of the moment system by resorting to a three-scale asymptotic expansion. The asymptotic analysis casts the flows into the outer solution, the viscous layer and the Knudsen layer. Starting from the BCs of the moment system, we propose a matching requirement and construct BCs for the Navier-Stokes equations. The obtained BCs contain the effect of second-order terms on the velocity slip and temperature jump. For the illustrative case of the Couette flow, we prove the validity of the constructed BCs through the error estimates. Meanwhile, numerical tests are presented to show the performance of the constructed BCs.

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arXiv2022

On Well-posed Boundary Conditions for the Linear Non-homogeneous Moment Equations in Half-space

We propose a necessary and sufficient condition for the well-posedness of the linear non-homogeneous Grad moment equations in half-space. The Grad moment system is based on Hermite expansion and regarded as an efficient reduction model of the Boltzmann equation. At a solid wall, the moment equations are commonly equipped with a Maxwell-type boundary condition named the Grad boundary condition. We point out that the Grad boundary condition is unstable for the non-homogeneous half-space problem. Thanks to the proposed criteria, we verify the well-posedness of a class of modified boundary conditions. The technique to make sure the existence and uniqueness mainly includes a well-designed preliminary simultaneous transformation of the coefficient matrices and Kreiss' procedure about the linear boundary value problem with characteristic boundaries. The stability is established by a weighted estimate. At the same time, we obtain the analytical expressions of the solution, which may help solve the half-space problem efficiently.

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arXiv2022

Coupling conditions for linear hyperbolic relaxation systems in two-scales problems

This work is concerned with coupling conditions for linear hyperbolic relaxation systems with multiple relaxation times. In the region with small relaxation time, an equilibrium system can be used for computational efficiency. Under the assumption that the relaxation system satisfies the structural stability condition and the interface is non-characteristic, we derive a coupling condition at the interface to couple the two systems in a domain decomposition setting. We prove the validity by the energy estimate and Laplace transform, which shows how the error of the domain decomposition method depends on the smaller relaxation time and the boundary layer effects. In addition, we propose a discontinuous Galerkin (DG) scheme for solving the interface problem with the derived coupling condition and prove the L2 stability. We validate our analysis on the linearized Carleman model and the linearized Grad's moment system and show the effectiveness of the DG scheme.

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arXiv2022

A well-balanced moving mesh discontinuous Galerkin method for the Ripa model on triangular meshes

A well-balanced moving mesh discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method is proposed for the numerical solution of the Ripa model -- a generalization of the shallow water equations that accounts for effects of water temperature variations. Thermodynamic processes are important particularly in the upper layers of the ocean where the variations of sea surface temperature play a fundamental role in climate change. The well-balance property which requires numerical schemes to preserve the lake-at-rest steady state is crucial to the simulation of perturbation waves over that steady state such as waves on a lake or tsunami waves in the deep ocean. To ensure the well-balance, positivity-preserving, and high-order properties, a DG-interpolation scheme (with or without scaling positivity-preserving limiter) and special treatments pertaining to the Ripa model are employed in the transfer of both the flow variables and bottom topography from the old mesh to the new one and in the TVB limiting process. Mesh adaptivity is realized using an MMPDE moving mesh approach and a metric tensor based on an equilibrium variable and water depth. A motivation is to adapt the mesh according to both the perturbations of the lake-at-rest steady state and the water depth distribution (bottom structure). Numerical examples in one and two dimensions are presented to demonstrate the well-balance, high-order accuracy, and positivity-preserving properties of the method and its ability to capture small perturbations of the lake-at-rest steady state.

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arXiv2022

Hermite spectral method for multi-species Boltzmann equation

We introduce a numerical scheme for the full multi-species Boltzmann equation based on Hermite spectral method. With the proper choice of expansion centers for different species, a practical algorithm is derived to evaluate the complicated multi-species binary collision operator. New collision models are built by combining the quadratic collision model and the simple BGK collision model under the framework of the Hermite spectral method, which enables us to balance the computational cost and accuracy. Several numerical experiments are implemented to validate the dramatic efficiency of this new Hermite spectral method. Moreover, we can handle the problems with as many as 100 species, which is far beyond the capability of the state-of-art algorithms.

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arXiv2022

A general improvement in the WENO-Z-type schemes

A new type of finite volume WENO schemes for hyperbolic problems was devised in [36] by introducing the order-preserving (OP) criterion. In this continuing work, we extend the OP criterion to the WENO-Z-type schemes. We firstly rewrite the formulas of the Z-type weights in a uniform form from a mapping perspective inspired by extensive numerical observations. Accrodingly, we build the concept of the locally order-preserving (LOP) mapping which is an extension of the order-preserving (OP) mapping and the resultant improved WENO-Z-type schemes are denoted as LOP-GMWENO-X. There are four major advantages of the LOP-GMWENO-X schemes superior to the existing WENO-Z-type schemes. Firstly, the new schemes can amend the serious drawback of the existing WENO-Z-type schemes that most of them suffer from either producing severe spurious oscillations or failing to obtain high resolutions in long calculations of hyperbolic problems with discontinuities. Secondly, they can maintain considerably high resolutions on solving problems with high-order critical points at long output times. Thirdly, they can obtain evidently higher resolution in the region with high-frequency but smooth waves. Finally, they can significantly decrease the post-shock oscillations for simulations of some 2D problems with strong shock waves. Extensive benchmark examples are conducted to illustrate these advantages.

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arXiv2021

Locally Order-Preserving Mapping for WENO Methods

In our previous studies [17, 18], the commonly reported issue that most of the existing mapped WENO schemes suffer from either losing high resolutions or generating spurious oscillations in long-run simulations of hyperbolic problems has been successfully addressed, by devising the improved mapped WENO schemes, namely MOP-WENO-X, where "X" stands for the version of the existing mapped WENO scheme. However, all the MOP-WENO-X schemes bring about the serious deficiency that their resolutions in the region with high-frequency but smooth waves are dramatically decreased compared to their associated WENO-X schemes. The purpose of this paper is to overcome this drawback. We firstly present the definition of the locally order-preserving (LOP) mapping. Then, by using a new proposed posteriori adaptive technique, we apply this LOP property to obtain the new mappings from those of the WENO-X schemes. The essential idea of the posteriori adaptive technique is to identify the global stencil in which the existing mappings fail to preserve the LOP property, and then replace the mapped weights with the weights of the classic WENO-JS scheme to recover the LOP property. We build the resultant mapped WENO schemes and denote them as LOP-WENO-X. The numerical experiments demonstrate that the resolutions in the region with high-frequency but smooth waves of the LOP-WENO-X schemes are similar or even better than those of their associated WENO-X schemes and naturally much higher than the MOP-WENO-X schemes. Furthermore, the LOP-WENO-X schemes gain all the great advantages of the MOP-WENO-X schemes, such as attaining high resolutions and in the meantime preventing spurious oscillations near discontinuities when solving the one-dimensional linear advection problems with long output times, and significantly reducing the post-shock oscillations in the simulations of the two-dimensional problems with shock waves.

math.NA↗

arXiv2021

An extension of the order-preserving mapping to the WENO-Z-type schemes

In our latest studies, by introducing the novel order-preserving (OP) criterion, we have successfully addressed the widely concerned issue of the previously published mapped weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) schemes that it is rather difficult to achieve high resolutions on the premise of removing spurious oscillations for long-run simulations of the hyperbolic systems. In the present study, we extend the OP criterion to the WENO-Z-type schemes as the forementioned issue has also been extensively observed numerically for these schemes. Firstly, we innovatively present the concept of the generalized mapped WENO schemes by rewriting the Z-type weights in a uniform formula from the perspective of the mapping relation. Then, we naturally introduce the OP criterion to improve the WENO-Z-type schemes, and the resultant schemes are denoted as MOP-GMWENO-X. Finally, extensive numerical experiments have been conducted to demonstrate the benefits of these new schemes. We draw the conclusion that, the convergence propoties of the proposed schemes are equivalent to the corresponding WENO-X schemes. The major benefit of the new schemes is that they have the capacity to achieve high resolutions and simultaneously remove spurious oscillations for long simulations. The new schemes have the additional benefit that they can greatly decrease the post-shock oscillations on solving 2D Euler problems with strong shock waves.

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arXiv2021

Towards building the OP-Mapped WENO schemes: A general methodology

A serious and ubiquitous issue in existing mapped WENO schemes is that most of them can hardly preserve high resolutions and in the meantime prevent spurious oscillations on solving hyperbolic conservation laws with long output times. Our goal in this article is to address this widely concerned problem [3, 4, 15, 29, 16, 18]. In our previous work [18], the order-preserving (OP) criterion was originally introduced and carefully used to devise a new mapped WENO scheme that performs satisfactorily in long-run simulations, and hence it was indicated that the OP criterion plays a critical role in the maintenance of low-dissipation and robustness for the mapped WENO schemes. Thus, in our present work, we firstly define the family of the mapped WENO schemes, whose mappings meet the OP criterion, as OP-Mapped WENO. Next, we attentively take a closer look at the mappings of various existing mapped WENO schemes and devise a general formula for them. It helps us to extend the OP criterion into the design of the improved mappings. Then, we propose the generalized implementation of obtaining a group of OP-Mapped WENO schemes, named MOP-WENO-X as they are developed from the existing mapped WENO-X schemes, where the notation "X" is used to identify the version of the existing mapped WENO scheme. Finally, extensive numerical experiments and comparisons with competing schemes are conducted to demonstrate the enhanced performances of the MOP-WENO-X schemes.

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arXiv2021

An Approximate Analytical Solution to Knudsen Layers

We apply moment methods to obtaining an approximate analytical solution to Knudsen layers. Based on the hyperbolic regularized moment system for the Boltzmann equation with the Shakhov collision model, we derive a linearized hyperbolic moment system to model the scenario with the Knudsen layer vicinity to a solid wall with Maxwell boundary condition. We find that the reduced system is in an even-odd parity form that the reduced system proves to be well-posed under all accommodation coefficients. We show that the system may capture the temperature jump coefficient and the thermal Knudsen layer well with only a few moments. With the increasing number of moments used, qualitative convergence of the approximate solution is observed.

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arXiv2021

A discontinuous least squares finite element method for Helmholtz equations

We propose a discontinuous least squares finite element method for solving the Helmholtz equation. The method is based on the L2 norm least squares functional with the weak imposition of the continuity across the interior faces as well as the boundary conditions. We minimize the functional over the discontinuous polynomial spaces to seek numerical solutions. The wavenumber explicit error estimates to our method are established. The optimal convergence rate in the energy norm with respect to a fixed wavenumber is attained. The least squares functional can naturally serve as a posteriori estimator in the h-adaptive procedure. It is convenient to implement the code due to the usage of discontinuous elements. Numerical results in two and three dimensions are presented to verify the error estimates.

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arXiv2021

An efficient mapped WENO scheme using approximate constant mapping

We present a novel mapping approach for WENO schemes through the use of an approximate constant mapping function which is constructed by employing an approximation of the classic signum function. The new approximate constant mapping function is designed to meet the overall criteria for a proper mapping function required in the design of the WENO-PM6 scheme. The WENO-PM6 scheme was proposed to overcome the potential loss of accuracy of the WENO-M scheme which was developed to recover the optimal convergence order of the WENO-JS scheme at critical points. Our new mapped WENO scheme, denoted as WENO-ACM, maintains almost all advantages of the WENO-PM6 scheme, including low dissipation and high resolution, while decreases the number of mathematical operations remarkably in every mapping process leading to a significant improvement of efficiency. The convergence rates of the WENO-ACM scheme have been shown through one-dimensional linear advection equation with various initial conditions. Numerical results of one-dimensional Euler equations for the Riemann problems, the Mach 3 shock-density wave interaction and the Woodward-Colella interacting blastwaves are improved in comparison with the results obtained by the WENO-JS, WENO-M and WENO-PM6 schemes. Numerical experiments with two-dimensional problems as the 2D Riemann problem, the shock-vortex interaction, the 2D explosion problem, the double Mach reflection and the forward-facing step problem modeled via the two dimensional Euler equations have been conducted to demonstrate the high resolution and the effectiveness of the WENO-ACM scheme. The WENO-ACM scheme provides significantly better resolution than the WENO-M scheme and slightly better resolution than the WENO-PM6 scheme, and compared to the WENO-M and WENO-PM6 schemes, the extra computational cost is reduced by more than 83% and 93%, respectively.

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arXiv2021

A new mapped WENO scheme using order-preserving mapping

Existing mapped WENO schemes can hardly prevent spurious oscillations while preserving high resolutions at long output times. We reveal in this paper the essential reason for such phenomena. It is actually caused by that the mapping function in these schemes can not preserve the order of the nonlinear weights of the stencils. The nonlinear weights may be increased for non-smooth stencils and be decreased for smooth stencils. It is then indicated to require the set of mapping functions to be Order-Preserving in mapped WENO schemes. Therefore, we propose a new mapped WENO scheme with a set of mapping functions to be order-preserving which exhibits a remarkable advantage over the mapped WENO schemes in references. For long output time simulations, the new scheme has the capacity to attain high resolutions and avoid spurious oscillations near discontinuities meanwhile.

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arXiv2021

A modified adaptive improved mapped WENO method

We propose a new family of mapped WENO schemes by using several adaptive control functions and a smoothing approximation of the signum function. The proposed schemes introduce the adaptivity and admit an extensive permitted range of the parameters in the mapping functions. Consequently, they have the capacity to achieve optimal convergence rates, even near critical points. Particularly, one of these new schemes with fine-tuned parameters illustrates a significant advantage when solving problems with discontinuities. It produces numerical solutions with high resolution without generating spurious oscillations, especially for long output times.

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arXiv2021

High Order Numerical Homogenization for Dissipative Ordinary Differential Equations

We propose a high order numerical homogenization method for dissipative ordinary differential equations (ODEs) containing two time scales. Essentially, only first order homogenized model globally in time can be derived. To achieve a high order method, we have to adopt a numerical approach in the framework of the heterogeneous multiscale method (HMM). By a successively refined microscopic solver, the accuracy improvement up to arbitrary order is attained providing input data smooth enough. Based on the formulation of the high order microscopic solver we derived, an iterative formula to calculate the microscopic solver is then proposed. Using the iterative formula, we develop an implementation to the method in an efficient way for practical applications. Several numerical examples are presented to validate the new models and numerical methods.

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