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Solving the Navier-Stokes Systems with Weak Viscosity and Strong Heat Conduction using the Flux-Corrected TransportTtechnique and the Alternating-Directional Explicit Method
Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title/Conference
Journal of Computational Physics
Volume
144
Issue
2
Publication Date
1998
First Page
379
Last Page
401
Abstract
The flux-corrected transport (FCT) technique and the alternating-direction explicit (ADE) method are coupled through a time-splitting technique. This new combination of both methods has been used successfully to solve the fully coupled Navier–Stokes system applied to ionospheric thermal plasma flows with a viscosity and strong heat conduction. The combined scheme gives convergent solutions within the time step set for nonlinear stability of the corresponding nondissipative flow fields, and the time-dependent solutions are consistent with other model results using different methods. To have a quantitative view of the flux-limiter of Boris' FCT version, a concept of local variation is defined to identify local extrema. The total variation diminishing scheme finds unique entropy solutions for vanishing dissipation. The ADE scheme, however, enables us to handle dissipation when the FCT technique alone can be inappropriate.
Recommended Citation
Liqun Zhou, Vincent B. Wickwar, Robert W. Schunk, Solving the Navier-Stokes Systems with Weak Viscosity and Strong Heat Conduction Using the Flux-Corrected Transport Technique and the Alternating-Directional Explicit Method, Journal of Computational Physics, Volume 144, Issue 2, 10 August 1998, Pages 379-401, ISSN 0021-9991, DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1998.6016.
https://doi.org/10.1006/jcph.1998.6016
Comments
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