SUMMARYThis paper reports an intercomparison of three second-order accurate reconstruction schemes to predict 2D steady-state compressible Euler and Navier-Stokes ows on unstructured meshes. The schemes comprise one monotone slope limiter (Barth and Jespersen, A1AA Paper 89-0366, 1989) and two approximately monotone methods: the slope limiter due to Venkatakrishnan and a data-dependent weighting least-squares procedure (Gooch, Journal of Computational Physics, 1997; 133:6 -17). In addition to the 1D scalar wave problem, comparisons were performed under two inviscid test cases: a supersonic 10• ramp and a supersonic bump; and two viscous laminar compressible ow cases: the Blasius boundary layer and a double-throated nozzle. The data-dependent oscillatory behaviour is found to be dependent on a user-supplied constant. The three schemes are compared in terms of accuracy and computational e ciency. The results show that the data-dependent procedure always returns a numerical steady-state solution, more accurate than the ones returned by the slope limiters. Its use for Navier-Stokes ow calculations is recommended.