Towards very high-order accurate schemes for unsteady convection problems on unstructured meshes

We construct several high-order residual-distribution methods for two-dimensional unsteady scalar advection on triangular unstructured meshes. For the first class of methods, we interpolate the solution in the space-time element. We start by calculating the first-order node residuals, then we calculate the high-order cell residual, and modify the first-order residuals to obtain high accuracy. For the second class of methods, we interpolate the solution in space only, and use high-order finite difference approximation for the time derivative. In doing so, we arrive at a multistep residual-distribution scheme. We illustrate the performance of both methods on several standard test problems. Copyright (c) 2005 John Wiley W Sons, Ltd.