Jet schemes for advection problems (Q423835)

The authors present a systematic methodology to develop high order accurate numerical approaches for linear advection problems. The following equation \[ \phi _t + \vec {v}\,\nabla \phi = 0, \] with given smooth velocity \(\vec {v}(\vec {x},t)\) and initial condition \[ \phi (\vec {x},\,0) = \Phi (\vec {x}) \] is studied. The considered methods are based on evolving parts of the jet of the solution in time, and are thus called jet schemes. The paper is organized as follows. Section 1 is the introduction. The polynomial representation of the approximate solution is presented in Section 2. In Section 3, the jet schemes advect and project approach is described in detail. In particular, it is shown that superconsistent jet schemes are equivalent to advancing the solution in time. Specific two-dimensional schemes of orders 1, 3 and 5 are constructed. These are then investigated numerically in Section 4 and compared with classical weighted essentially nonoscillatory schemes of the same orders. Boundary conditions and stability are also discussed in Section 3. In the last fifth section, conclusions and an outlook are given.