An Extended Discontinuous Galerkin Method for High-Order Shock-Fitting

Abstract: We present a sub-cell accurate shock-fitting technique using a high-order extended discontinuous Galerkin (XDG) method, where a computational cell of the background grid is cut into two cut-cells at the shock position. Our technique makes use of a sharp interface description where the shock front is implicitly defined by means of the zero iso-contour of a level-set function. A novel implicit pseudo-time-stepping procedure is employed to correct the position of the shock front inside the cut background cell by using cell-local indicators, since the position and shape of shock waves are not known a priori for the general, multi-dimensional case. This iterative correction terminates if the shock front has converged to the exact position. The procedure is demonstrated for the test case of a one-dimensional stationary normal shock wave. Furthermore, the underlying sharp interface approach drastically reduces the complexity of the grid handling, since a simple Cartesian background grid can be employed.