THE CARBUNCLE PHENOMENON IS INCURABLE  

作　　者：Volker Elling 

机构地区：[1]Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, MI4810-1043, USA

出　　处：《Acta Mathematica Scientia》2009年第6期1647-1656,共10页数学物理学报（B辑英文版）

摘　　要：Numerical approximations of multi-dimensional shock waves sometimes ex- hibit an instability called the carbuncle phenomenon. Techniques for suppressing carbuncles are trial-and-error and lack in reliability and generality, partly because theoretical knowledge about carbuncles is equally unsatisfactory. It is not known which numerical schemes are affected in which circumstances, what causes carbuncles to appear and whether carbuncles are purely mimerical artifacts or rather features of a continuum equation or model. This article presents evidence towards the latter： we propose that carbuncles are a special class of entropy solutions which can be physically correct in some circumstances. Using ＂filaments＂, we trigger a single carbuncle in a new and more reliable way, and compute the structure in detail in similarity coordinates. We argue that carbuncles can, in some circumstances, be valid vanishing viscosity limits. Trying to suppress them is making a physical assumption that may be false.Numerical approximations of multi-dimensional shock waves sometimes ex- hibit an instability called the carbuncle phenomenon. Techniques for suppressing carbuncles are trial-and-error and lack in reliability and generality, partly because theoretical knowledge about carbuncles is equally unsatisfactory. It is not known which numerical schemes are affected in which circumstances, what causes carbuncles to appear and whether carbuncles are purely mimerical artifacts or rather features of a continuum equation or model. This article presents evidence towards the latter： we propose that carbuncles are a special class of entropy solutions which can be physically correct in some circumstances. Using ＂filaments＂, we trigger a single carbuncle in a new and more reliable way, and compute the structure in detail in similarity coordinates. We argue that carbuncles can, in some circumstances, be valid vanishing viscosity limits. Trying to suppress them is making a physical assumption that may be false.

关 键 词：shock Euler equation CARBUNCLE entropy solution 

分 类 号：O35[理学—流体力学]