The normal flux method at the boundary for multidimensional finite volume approximations in CFD

This paper presents a general method for imposing boundary conditions in the context of hyperbolic systems of conservation laws. This method is particularly well suited for approximations in the framework of Finite Volume Methods in the sense that it computes directly the normal flux at the boundary. We generalize our approach to nonconservative hyperbolic systems and discuss both the characteristic and the noncharacteristic cases. We present several applications to models occurring in Computational Fluid Mechanics like the Euler equations for compressible inviscid fluids with real equation of state, shallow water equations, magnetohydrodynamics equations and two fluid models. (C) 2004 Elsevier SAS. All rights reserved.