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ON THE QUASI-UNCONDITIONAL STABILITY OF BDF-ADI SOLVERS FOR THE COMPRESSIBLE NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS AND RELATED LINEAR PROBLEMS

Journal

SIAM JOURNAL ON NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
Volume 55, Issue 2, Pages 892-922

Publisher

SIAM PUBLICATIONS
DOI: 10.1137/15M1042279

Keywords

Navier-Stokes; quasi-unconditional stability; high-order; ADI; BDF; unconditional stability

Funding

  1. AFOSR
  2. NSF
  3. NSSEFF Vannevar Bush Fellowship [FA9550-15-1-0043, DMS-1411876, N00014-16-1-2808]

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The companion paper Higher-order in time quasi-unconditionally stable ADI solvers for the compressible Navier Stokes equations in 2D and 3D curvilinear domains, which is referred to as Part I in what follows, introduces ADI (alternating direction implicit) solvers of higher orders of temporal accuracy (orders s = 2 to 6) for the compressible Navier Stokes equations in two-and three-dimensional space. The proposed methodology employs the backward differentiation formulae (BDF) together with a quasilinear-like formulation, high-order extrapolation for nonlinear components, and the Douglas Gunn splitting. A variety of numerical results presented in Part I demonstrate in practice the theoretical convergence rates enjoyed by these algorithms, as well as their excellent accuracy and stability properties for a wide range of Reynolds numbers. In particular, the proposed schemes enjoy a certain property of quasi-unconditional stability: for small enough (problem dependent) fixed values of the timestep Delta t, these algorithms are stable for arbitrarily fine spatial discretizations. The present contribution presents a mathematical basis for the observed performance of these algorithms. Short of providing stability theorems for the full Navier Stokes BDF-ADI solvers, this paper puts forth a number of stability proofs for BDF-ADI schemes as well as some related unsplit BDF schemes for a variety of related linear model problems in one, two, and three spatial dimensions. These include proofs of quasi-unconditional stability for unsplit BDF schemes of orders 2 <= s <= 6, and even a proof of a form of unconditional stability for two-dimensional BDF-ADI schemes of order 2 for both convection and diffusion problems. Additionally, a set of numerical tests presented in this paper for the compressible Navier Stokes equation indicate that quasi-unconditional stability carries over to the fully nonlinear context.

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