Lax-Wendroff approximate Taylor methods with fast and optimized weighted essentially non-oscillatory reconstructions (Q2027961)

In this paper, new families of shock-capturing high-order numerical methods are introduced using fast WENO (FOWENO) reconstructions and approximate Taylor methods. Reconstruction of WENO operators are based on the combination of fast smooth indicators, that coincide with the original smooth indicators in the third-order case, and the computation of optimal weights that preserve the accuracy of the reconstructions close to critical point regardless of their order. Moreover, two different implementations of the approximate Taylor methods are considered: Lax-Wendroff Approximate Taylor and Compact Approximate Taylor methods. These methods are compared between them and against standard WENO implementations for several test problems ranging from scalar linear one-dimensional problems to nonlinear systems of conservation laws in three dimensions.