LDG2: A variant of the LDG flux formulation for the spectral volume method (Q639397)

The local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) viscous flux formulation was originally developed for the discontinuous Galerkin setting and later extended to the spectral volume setting. Unlike the penalty formulations like the interior penalty and the BR2 schemes, the LDG formulation requires no length-based penalizing terms and is compact. However, computational results using LDG are dependent of the orientation of the faces, especially for unstructured and non-uniform grids. This results in lower solution accuracy and stiffer stability constraints. In this paper, the authors develop a variant of the LDG, which does not only retain its attractive features, but also vastly reduces its unsymmetrical nature. This variant (aptly named LDG2), displays higher accuracy than the LDG approach, and has a milder stability constraint than the original LDG formulation. In general, 1D and 2D numerical results are very promising and indicate that the approach has a great potential for 3D flow problems.