Low-dissipation low-dispersion explicit Taylor-Galerkin schemes from the Runge-Kutta kernels

Abstract

A multi-stage approach was adopted to investigate similarities and differences between the explicit Taylor-Galerkin and the explicit Runge-Kutta time integration schemes. It was found that the substitution of some, but not all, of second-order temporal derivatives in a Taylor-Galerkin scheme by additional stages makes it analogous to a Runge-Kutta scheme while preserving its original dissipative property for node-to-node oscillations. The substitution of all second-order temporal derivatives transforms Taylor-Galerkin schemes into Runge-Kutta schemes with zero attenuation at the grid cut-off. The application of this approach to an existing two-stage Taylor-Galerkin scheme yields a low-dissipation low-dispersion Taylor-Galerkin formulation. Two one-dimensional benchmarks were simulated to study the performance of this new scheme. The reverse process yields a general approach for transforming m-stage Runge-Kutta schemes into (m−1)-stage Taylor-Galerkin schemes while preserving the same order of accuracy. The dissipation and dispersion properties for several new Taylor-Galerkin schemes were compared to those of their corresponding Runge-Kutta form.