skip to main content
OSTI.GOV title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: An exponential time-integrator scheme for steady and unsteady inviscid flows

Journal Article · · Journal of Computational Physics
 [1];  [2]; ORCiD logo [3];  [4]
  1. Beijing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing (China)
  2. Beijing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing (China); Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA (United States)
  3. University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (United States)
  4. University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (United States)

In this report an exponential time-integrator scheme of second-order accuracy based on the predictor–corrector methodology, denoted PCEXP, is developed to solve multi-dimensional nonlinear partial differential equations pertaining to fluid dynamics. The effective and efficient implementation of PCEXP is realized by means of the Krylov method. The linear stability and truncation error are analyzed through a one-dimensional model equation. The proposed PCEXP scheme is applied to the Euler equations discretized with a discontinuous Galerkin method in both two and three dimensions. The effectiveness and efficiency of the PCEXP scheme are demonstrated for both steady and unsteady inviscid flows. The accuracy and efficiency of the PCEXP scheme are verified and validated through comparisons with the explicit third-order total variation diminishing Runge–Kutta scheme (TVDRK3), the implicit backward Euler (BE) and the implicit second-order backward difference formula (BDF2). For unsteady flows, the PCEXP scheme generates a temporal error much smaller than the BDF2 scheme does, while maintaining the expected acceleration at the same time. Moreover, the PCEXP scheme is also shown to achieve the computational efficiency comparable to the implicit schemes for steady flows.

Research Organization:
Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); Beijing Computational Science Research Center (CSRC); National Science Foundation (NSF)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0016540; U1530401; U1501501; DMS-1521965
OSTI ID:
1538432
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1548545
Journal Information:
Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 365, Issue C; ISSN 0021-9991
Publisher:
ElsevierCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 12 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

References (33)

Comparative performance of exponential, implicit, and explicit integrators for stiff systems of ODEs journal March 2013
Application of a Higher Order Discontinuous Galerkin journal January 2011
High order multi-moment constrained finite volume method. Part I: Basic formulation journal June 2009
Exponential Integrators for Large Systems of Differential Equations journal September 1998
On Krylov Subspace Approximations to the Matrix Exponential Operator journal October 1997
Implementation of exponential Rosenbrock-type integrators journal March 2009
Approximate Riemann solvers, parameter vectors, and difference schemes journal October 1981
Higher‐order discontinuous Galerkin method for pyramidal elements using orthogonal bases journal March 2012
Efficient semi-implicit schemes for stiff systems journal May 2006
Efficient integration of large stiff systems of ODEs with exponential propagation iterative (EPI) methods journal April 2006
A BDF2 integration method with step size control for elasto-plasticity journal May 2004
On the use of exponential time integration methods in atmospheric models journal May 2013
The Local Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Time-Dependent Convection-Diffusion Systems journal December 1998
Exponential Time Differencing for Stiff Systems journal March 2002
Influence of Reference-to-Physical Frame Mappings on Approximation Properties of Discontinuous Piecewise Polynomial Spaces journal December 2011
High-order methods for computational fluid dynamics: A brief review of compact differential formulations on unstructured grids journal July 2014
Exponential Rosenbrock-Type Methods journal January 2009
Krylov Methods for the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations journal January 1994
A Class of Explicit Exponential General Linear Methods journal May 2006
Compact integration factor methods in high spatial dimensions journal May 2008
Krylov implicit integration factor methods for spatial discretization on high dimensional unstructured meshes: Application to discontinuous Galerkin methods journal May 2011
Analysis of Some Krylov Subspace Approximations to the Matrix Exponential Operator journal February 1992
The Runge–Kutta Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Conservation Laws V journal April 1998
A unifying lifting collocation penalty formulation including the discontinuous Galerkin, spectral volume/difference methods for conservation laws on mixed grids journal November 2009
High-Order Accurate Discontinuous Finite Element Solution of the 2D Euler Equations journal December 1997
Efficient design of exponential-Krylov integrators for large scale computing journal May 2010
Fast Explicit Integration Factor Methods for Semilinear Parabolic Equations journal May 2014
High-order CFD methods: current status and perspective: HIGH-ORDER CFD METHODS journal January 2013
Fast High-Order Compact Exponential Time Differencing Runge–Kutta Methods for Second-Order Semilinear Parabolic Equations journal October 2015
Analysis and Application of an Orthogonal Nodal Basis on Triangles for Discontinuous Spectral Element Methods journal December 2005
A review of flux reconstruction or correction procedure via reconstruction method for the Navier-Stokes equations journal January 2016
Exponential time integration using Krylov subspaces journal June 2009
A new class of exponential propagation iterative methods of Runge–Kutta type (EPIRK) journal October 2011