High-order positivity-preserving entropy stable schemes for the 3-D compressible Navier-Stokes equations (Q6159296)

The authors extend a new family of high-order positivity-preserving, entropy stable spectral collocation schemes developed for the one-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes equations in [\textit{J. Upperman} et al., J. Comput. Phys. 466, Article ID 111355, 21 p. (2022; Zbl 07561057)] to three spatial dimensions. The proposed schemes are constructed by using a flux-limiting technique that combines a positivity-violating entropy stable method of arbitrary order of accuracy and a novel first-order positivity-preserving entropy stable finite volume-type scheme discretized on the same Legendre-Gauss-Lobatto grid points used for constructing the high-order discrete operators. The positivity-preserving and excellent discontinuity-capturing properties are achieved by adding an artificial dissipation in the form of the low- and high-order Brenner-Navier-Stokes diffusion operators. In addition to this, the new schemes are entropy conservative for smooth inviscid flows and freestream preserving. One of the main features is that these schemes guarantee both the pointwise positivity of thermodynamic variables and \(L^2\) stability for the 3-D compressible Navier-Stokes equations. Some numerical examples are presented to show the accuracy and positivity-preserving properties of the family of the schemes proposed by the authors.