Robust numerical methods for 2D turbulence (Q1335626)

A numerical method is called robust if it does not require tuning. Two different approaches to robustness are described. First, existing energy and enstrophy conserving space discretization are combined with new nonlinear Runge-Kutta schemes that conserve either energy or enstrophy in the inviscid unforced case. The second approach is to construct robust space discretizations (Jacobians) using the grid-aligned essentially non- oscillatory (ENO) technique. Only fifth and lower order ENO Jacobians based on the advection form of the vorticity equation suppress all instabilities and oscillations without tuning if a global Lax-Friedrichs modification is used. A preliminary comparison is made with a tuned Arakawa Jacobian.