Fully Discrete Active Flux Methods for the Euler Equations: Exploring Different Reconstructions and New Multi-Dimensional Evolution Operators

Abstract: We present new fully discrete Cartesian grid Active Flux methods for the two-dimensional Euler equations of gas dynamics. A key component of these methods is the evolution operator used to evolve point-value degrees of freedom. Therefore, we derive several new, third-order accurate, multidimensional evolution operators for point-value updates of the linearized Euler equations using the method of bicharacteristics. We also investigate how the reconstruction and choice of approximate evolution operator affect the accuracy and stability of the resulting methods.