On a robust and accurate localized artificial diffusivity scheme for the high-order flux-reconstruction method

The high-order flux reconstruction (FR) method on unstructured hexahedral grids is coupled with the localized artificial diffusivity (LAD) scheme for aiming at accurate simulation of shock-turbulence interaction. In order to overcome known robustness issues particularly with the high-order (r > 0) derivative formulation, important properties of the artificial bulk viscosity (ABV) profile affecting the solution are investigated first. For the purpose of comparison, an approximated Gaussian filter and modified restriction-prolongation (RP) filters are developed and tested for the present FR-LAD approach. Then, we propose a multidimensional RP filter on unstructured quadrilateral and hexahedral grids to address the issues on non-Cartesian grids. It is shown that a simple extension of a one-dimensional RP filter for two-dimensional grids may result in insufficient smoothing of ABV with r = 2, and that the proposed multidimensional RP filter can provide smooth ABV with both r = 0 and r = 2. The proposed FR-LAD scheme is tested for typical shock-related problems, including the 1D shock tube, 1D shock-entropy wave interaction, 2D steady shock flows, and 2D shock-vortex interaction. The FR-LAD scheme has favorable properties of subcell shock capturing with the length scale of O(h/p) and superior preservation of high-order accuracy for smooth flows. Finally, LES of an overexpanded supersonic jet is performed to demonstrate its capability for practical applications. The proposed FR-LAD scheme can be an attractive candidate for LES or DNS of compressible flows involving shocks, contact discontinuities, turbulence, and their interactions on unstructured meshes. (C) 2018 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc.