Study of a collocated Lagrange-remap scheme for multi-material flows adapted to HPC

This paper describes a collocated numerical scheme for multi-material compressible Euler equations, which attempts to suit to parallel computing constraints. Its main features are conservativity of mass, momentum, total energy and entropy production, and second order in time and space. In the context of a Eulerian Lagrange-remap scheme on planar geometry and for rectangular meshes, we propose and compare remapping schemes using a finite volume framework. We consider directional splitting or fully multi-dimensional remaps, and we focus on a definition of the so-called corner fluxes. We also address the issue of the internal energy behavior when using a conservative total energy remap. It can be perturbed by the duality between kinetic energy obtained through the conservative momentum remap or implicitly through the total energy remap. Therefore, we propose a kinetic energy flux that improves the internal energy remap results in this context. Copyright (C) 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.