A barely implicit correction for flux-corrected transport (Q1819649)

The barely implicit correction (BIC) removes the stringent limit on the timestep imposed by the sound speed in explicit methods. This is done by adding one elliptic equation which has to be solved implicitly. BIC is combined with the flux-corrected transport algorithm in order to represent sharp gradients in subsonic flows accurately. The resultant conservative algorithm costs about the same per timestep as a single explicit timestep calculated using an optimized flux-corrected transport module. Several examples show the technique's ability to solve nearly incompressible flows very economically.