Stable and accurate hybrid finite volume methods based on pure convexity arguments for hyperbolic systems of conservation law

This exploratory work tries to present first results of a novel approach for the numerical approximation of solutions of hyperbolic systems of conservation laws. The objective is to define stable and “reasonably” accurate numerical schemes while being free from any upwind process and from any computation of derivatives or mean Jacobian matrices. That means that we only want to perform flux evaluations. This would be useful for “complicated” systems like those of two-phase models where solutions of Riemann problems are hard, see impossible to compute. For Riemann or Roe-like solvers, each fluid model needs the particular computation of the Jacobian matrix of the flux and the hyperbolicity property which can be conditional for some of these models makes the matrices be not R-diagonalizable everywhere in the admissible state space. In this paper, we rather propose some numerical schemes where the stability is obtained using convexity considerations. A certain rate of accuracy is also expected. For that, we propose to build numerical hybrid fluxes that are convex combinations of the second order Lax-wendroff scheme flux and the first order modified Lax-Friedrichs scheme flux with an “optimal” combination rate that ensures both minimal numerical dissipation and good accuracy. The resulting scheme is a central scheme-like method. We will also need and propose a definition of local dissipation by convexity for Ecole Centrale de Paris, Laboratoire de Mathématiques Appliquées aux Systèmes (MAS), Grande Voie des Vignes, F-92295 Châtenay-Malabry FRANCE, e-mail: [email protected]