A Lagrangian scheme with the preservation of symmetry and conservation in cylindrical geometry: Preliminary study.

Abstract: We report our preliminary results in developing a new cell-centered control volume Lagrangian scheme for solving Euler equations of compressible gas dynamics in cylindrical coordinates. Based on a local coordinate transform strategy, the scheme can preserve one-dimensional spherical symmetry in a two-dimensional cylindrical geometry when computed on an equal-angle-zoned initial grid. Unlike many previous area weighted schemes that possess the spherical symmetry property, our scheme is discretized on the true volume and it can preserve the conservation property for all the conserved variables including density, momentum and total energy. Preliminary two dimensional numerical examples in cylindrical coordinates are presented to demonstrate the performance of the scheme in terms of symmetry, accuracy and non-oscillatory properties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]