TY - JOUR T1 - High Order Discretely Well-Balanced Methods for Arbitrary Hydrostatic Atmospheres AU - P. Berberich , Jonas AU - Käppeli , Roger AU - Chandrashekar , Praveen AU - Klingenberg , Christian JO - Communications in Computational Physics VL - 3 SP - 666 EP - 708 PY - 2021 DA - 2021/07 SN - 30 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.OA-2020-0153 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/cicp/19307.html KW - Finite-volume methods, well-balancing, hyperbolic balance laws, compressible Euler equations with gravity. AB -

We introduce novel high order well-balanced finite volume methods for the full compressible Euler system with gravity source term. They require no à priori knowledge of the hydrostatic solution which is to be well-balanced and are not restricted to certain classes of hydrostatic solutions. In one spatial dimension we construct a method that exactly balances a high order discretization of any hydrostatic state. The method is extended to two spatial dimensions using a local high order approximation of a hydrostatic state in each cell. The proposed simple, flexible, and robust methods are not restricted to a specific equation of state. Numerical tests verify that the proposed method improves the capability to accurately resolve small perturbations on hydrostatic states.