A modified fifth order finite difference Hermite WENO scheme for hyperbolic conservation laws (Q2210659)

The authors present a new modified fifth-order finite difference Hermite weighted essentially non-oscillatory (HWENO) scheme for solving one-dimensional and two-dimensional hyperbolic conservation laws. One of the main features of this scheme is that the HWENO scheme is simpler and more robust. In particular, it is not required to add a positivity-preserving flux limiter, and larger CFL number can be applied than the usual to ensure the stability of schemes. The new HWENO scheme has fifth-order accuracy while based on the same reconstruction stencil the original finite difference HWENO scheme only has fourth-order accuracy when solving two-dimensional problems. Furthermore, the new scheme preserves the nice property of compactness, i.e., only immediate neighbor information is needed in the reconstruction. Several numerical tests for both one-dimensional and two-dimensional problems are presented to illustrate the numerical accuracy, high resolution and robustness of the proposed modified HWENO scheme.