Chi-Wang Shu
Brown University
4:30 PM
127 Hayes-Healy
Colloquium Tea held at 4:00 pm in 101A Crowley Hall
Inverse Lax-Wendroff Procedure for Numerical Boundary Conditions
When solving partial differential equations, finite difference methods have the advantage of simplicity, however they are usually only designed on Cartesian meshes. In this talk, we will discuss a class of high order finite difference numerical boundary condition for solving hyperbolic Hamilton-Jacobi equations, hyperbolic conservation laws, and convection-diffusion equations on complex geometry using a Cartesian mesh. The challenge results from the wide stencil of the interior high order scheme and the fact that the boundary may not be aligned with the mesh. Our method is based on an inverse Lax-Wendroff procedure for the inflow boundary conditions coupled with traditional extrapolation or weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) extrapolation for outflow boundary conditions. The schemes are shown to be high order and stable, under the standard CFL condition for the inner schemes, regardless of the distance of the first grid point to the physical boundary, that is, the ``cut-cell'' difficulty is overcome by this procedure. Recent progress in nonlinear conservation laws with sonic points, and a conservative version of the method, will be discussed. Numerical examples are provided to illustrate the good performance of our method.
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