ENO-ET: a reconstruction scheme based on extended ENO stencil and truncated highest-order term

High-order numerical methods for hyperbolic balance laws must circumvent Godunov’s theorem, for which non-linear spatial reconstruction is a successful procedure; this allows the design of non-linear semi-discrete and fully discrete high-order finite volume methods. The Essentially-Non-Oscillatory (ENO) method pioneered by Harten and collaborators in 1987 was a fundamental breakthrough in providing the bases for constructing schemes of both high-order of accuracy in smooth regions and essentially non-oscillatory at discontinuities. Several variations of ENO have since appeared in the literature, notably the Weighted Essentially-Non-Oscillatory (WENO) method of Jiang and Shu. In the present article, after revisiting the main elements of reconstruction methods, including their analysis, we propose a new, conservative ENO-type reconstruction procedure, called ENO-ET, that preserves the main advantages of the classical ENO and successfully overcomes its well-known weaknesses. The newly proposed reconstruction scheme is systematically assessed and compared with the best existing reconstruction schemes. We do so in two ways: (i) the methods are purely regarded as local, non-linear interpolation objects and (ii) the reconstruction methods are implemented in the context of high-order fully-discrete ADER numerical schemes for solving hyperbolic balance laws. The resulting schemes are of arbitrary order of accuracy in both space and time. In this paper the methods are implemented up to seventh order of accuracy and tested on carefully chosen numerical examples. Tests solved include the linear advection equation, the Euler equations of gas dynamics and the blood flow equations. Particular features of interest here are: (a) attaining theoretically expected convergence rates for smooth solutions arising from demanding initial conditions, (b) compute essentially non-oscillatory profiles for discontinuous solutions and (c) attain successfully steady-steady state solutions by time marching. As compared to existing methods, the newly proposed ENO-ET scheme performs very well for all these problems.