A Structure-Preserving Finite Volume Scheme for a Hyperbolic Reformulation of the Navier–Stokes–Korteweg Equations

Firas Dhaouadi () and Michael Dumbser
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Firas Dhaouadi: Laboratory of Applied Mathematics, DICAM, University of Trento, Via Mesiano 77, 38123 Trento, Italy
Michael Dumbser: Laboratory of Applied Mathematics, DICAM, University of Trento, Via Mesiano 77, 38123 Trento, Italy

Mathematics, 2023, vol. 11, issue 4, 1-25

Abstract: In this paper, we present a new explicit second-order accurate structure-preserving finite volume scheme for the first-order hyperbolic reformulation of the Navier–Stokes–Korteweg equations. The model combines the unified Godunov-Peshkov-Romenski model of continuum mechanics with a recently proposed hyperbolic reformulation of the Euler–Korteweg system. The considered PDE system includes an evolution equation for a gradient field that is by construction endowed with a curl-free constraint. The new numerical scheme presented here relies on the use of vertex-based staggered grids and is proven to preserve the curl constraint exactly at the discrete level, up to machine precision. Besides a theoretical proof, we also show evidence of this property via a set of numerical tests, including a stationary droplet, non-condensing bubbles as well as non-stationary Ostwald ripening test cases with several bubbles. We present quantitative and qualitative comparisons of the numerical solution, both, when the new structure-preserving discretization is applied and when it is not. In particular for under-resolved simulations on coarse grids we show that some numerical solutions tend to blow up when the curl-free constraint is not respected.

Keywords: Navier–Stokes–Korteweg system; hyperbolic reformulation of dispersive and diffusive equations; compressible multi-phase flows; structure-preserving curl-free schemes; staggered finite volume method; augmented Lagrangian approach (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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