A third-order finite-volume residual-based scheme for the 2D Euler equations on unstructured grids

A residual-based (RB) scheme relies on the vanishing of residual at the steady-state to design a transient first-order dissipation, which becomes high-order at steady-state. Initially designed within a finite-difference framework for computations of compressible flows on structured grids, the RB schemes displayed good convergence, accuracy and shock-capturing properties which motivated their extension to unstructured grids using a finite volume (FV) method. A second-order formulation of the FV-RB scheme for compressible flows on general unstructured grids was presented in a previous paper. The present paper describes the derivation of a third-order FV-RB scheme and its application to hyperbolic model problems as well as subsonic, transonic and supersonic internal and external inviscid flows. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.