Verification of an Entropy Dissipative QGD-Scheme

Abstract

An entropy dissipative spatial discretization has recently been constructed for the multidimensional gas dynamics equations based on their preliminary parabolic quasi-gasdynamic (QGD) regularization. In this paper, an explicit finite-difference scheme with such a discretization is verified on several versions of the 1D Riemann problem, both well-known in the literature and new. The scheme is compared with the previously constructed QGD-schemes and its merits are noticed. Practical convergence rates in the mesh L1-norm are computed. We also analyze the practical relevance in the nonlinear statement as the Mach number grows of recently derived necessary conditions for L2-dissipativity of the Cauchy problem for a linearized QGD-scheme.