High order maximum principle preserving finite volume method for convection dominated problems (Q292582)

The application of the maximum principle preserving (MPP) parameterized flux limiters to the high-order finite volume scheme with Runge-Kutta time discretization for solving convection dominated problems is presented. The main idea of such flux limiter is to limit the temporal integrated high-order numerical flux toward a first-order MPP monotone flux. This idea is here generalized to high-order finite volume methods solving convection-dominated problems, which are easy to implement and introduce little computational overhead. A general proof that the proposed flux limiter maintains high-order accuracy of the original weighted essentially nonoscillatory (WENO) scheme for linear advection problems without any additional time step restriction is provided. It is also proven that for general nonlinear convection-dominated problems, the proposed flux limiter, introduces up to \(\mathcal O(\Delta x^3+\Delta t^3)\) modification to the high-order temporal integrated flux in the original WENO scheme, without extra time step constraint. The accuracy preservation of the proposed flux limiter is numerically investigated up to ninth order in a general setting. Numerical examples are used to demonstrate the advantages of the proposed method.