Second-Order Characteristic Methods for Advection-Difusion Equations and Comparison to Other Schemes

Abstract

We develop two characteristic methods for the solution of the linear advection diffusion equations which use a second order Runge-Kutta approximation of the characteristics within the framework of the Eulerian Lagrangian localized adjoint method These methods naturally incorporate all three types of boundary conditions in their formulations are fully mass conservative and generate regularly structured systems which are symmetric and positive definite for most combinations of the boundary conditions Extensive numerical experiments are presented which compare the performance of these two Runge-Kutta methods to many other well perceived and widely used methods which include many Galerkin methods and high resolution methods from fluid dynamics

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1997
Accession Number
AD1000050

Entities

People

  • Hao Wang
  • M. Al-lawatia
  • R. C. Sharpley

Organizations

  • University of South Carolina

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Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Boltzmann Equation
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Mechanics
  • Computational Science
  • Equations
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Galerkin Method
  • Groundwater
  • High Resolution
  • Mathematics
  • Mechanics
  • Method Of Characteristics
  • Numerical Analysis
  • Smoothing (Mathematics)
  • Water Resources

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Fluid Dynamics.