A isobaric fix for the overheating problem in multimaterial compressible flows (Q1282433)

We consider the general class of material interface problems where numerical methods can predict pressure and velocity adequately, but fail miserably in their prediction of density and temperature. Motivated by both total variation considerations and physical considerations, we have developed a simple but general boundary condition for this class of problems. This new boundary condition does not change the pressure or the velocity predicted by the numerical method, but does change the density and the temperature in a fashion consistent with the equation of state resulting in new values that minimize a specific measure of variation at the boundary. \(\copyright\) Academic Press.