2025/04/08 by Klaas Willems, Willems, Klaas, Giovanni Samaey +3 · 1 citation
Engineering · #Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics #Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics #FOS: Mathematics #Numerical Analysis (math.NA) #Numerical methods in engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2504.05942
openalex publication_date 2025/04/08 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We discuss the order, efficiency, stability and positivity of several meshless schemes for linear scalar hyperbolic equations. Meshless schemes are Generalised Finite Difference Methods (GFDMs) for arbitrary irregular grids in which there is no connectivity between the grid points. We propose a new MUSCL-like meshless scheme that uses a central stencil, with which we can achieve arbitrarily high orders, and compare it to existing meshless upwind schemes and meshless WENO schemes. The stability of the newly proposed scheme is guaranteed by an upwind reconstruction to the midpoints of the stencil. The new meshless MUSCL scheme is also efficient due to the reuse of the GFDM solution in the reconstruction. We combine the new MUSCL scheme with a Multi-dimensional Optimal Order Detection (MOOD) procedure to avoid spurious oscillations at discontinuities. In one spatial dimension, our fourth order MUSCL scheme outperforms existing WENO and upwind schemes in terms of stability and accuracy. In two spatial dimensions, our MUSCL scheme achieves similar accuracy to an existing WENO scheme but is significantly more stable.