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The advantage of WENO-JS5 scheme [ J. Comput. Phys. 1996] over the WENO-LOC scheme [J. Comput. Phys.1994] is that the WENO-LOC nonlinear weights do not achieve the desired order of convergence in smooth monotone regions and at critical points. In this article, this drawback is achieved with the WENO-LOC smoothness indicators by constructing a WENO-Z type nonlinear weights which contains a novel global smoothness indicator. This novel smoothness indicator measures the derivatives of the reconstructed flux in a global stencil, as a result, the proposed numerical scheme could decrease the dissipation near the discontinuous regions. The theoretical and numerical experiments to achieve the required order of convergence in smooth monotone regions, at critical points, the essentially non-oscillatory (ENO), the analysis of parameters involved in the nonlinear weights like $\epsilon$ and $p$ are studied. From this study, we conclude that the imposition of certain conditions on $\epsilon$ and $p$, the proposed scheme achieves the global order of accuracy in the presence of an arbitrary number of critical points. Numerical tests for scalar, one and two-dimensional system of Euler equations are presented to show the effective performance of the proposed numerical scheme., Comment: 25 pages, 10 figures

In this paper we develop a new sixth-order finite difference central weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) scheme with Z-type nonlinear weights for nonlinear degenerate parabolic equations. The centered polynomial is introduced for the WENO reconstruction in order to avoid the negative linear weights. We choose the Z-type nonlinear weights based on the $L^2$-norm smoothness indicators, yielding the new WENO scheme with more accurate resolution. It is also confirmed that the proposed central WENO scheme with the devised nonlinear weights achieves sixth order accuracy in smooth regions. One- and two-dimensional numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the improved performance of the proposed central WENO scheme.

Here, we have analyzed the weights of the fifth-order finite difference weighted essentially non-oscillatory WENO-P scheme developed by Kim et al. (J. Sci. Comput. 2016) to approximate the solutions of hyperbolic conservation laws. The main ingredient of WENO schemes is the construction of smoothness indicators, which resolves odd behavior of the scheme near discontinuities. In WENO-P, the smoothness indicators are constructed in L 1 − norm. It is observed that analytically as well as numerically, the WENO-P weights do not achieve required ENO order of accuracy near discontinuities. To recover the desired order of accuracy, we have imposed some constraints on the weight parameters to guarantee that the WENO-P scheme achieves the desired ENO order of accuracy near discontinuities and have the over all fifth-order accuracy in smooth regions of solutions with an arbitrary number of vanishing derivatives. Numerical results are presented with the new weights to verify the robustness and accuracy of the proposed scheme for one and two-dimensional system of Euler equations.

Summary In this article, we have devised a new reference smoothness indicator for third-order weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) scheme to achieve desired order of convergence at critical points. In the context of the weighted essentially non-oscillatory scheme, reference smoothness indicator is constructed in such a way that it satisfies the sufficient condition on the weights for the third-order convergence. The goal is to construct a reference smoothness indicator such that the resulted scheme have to achieve the required order of accuracy even if the first two derivatives vanish but not the third derivative. The construction of such reference smoothness indicator is not possible through a linear combination of local smoothness indicators only. We have proposed a reference smoothness indicator to be of the fourth order of accuracy on three-point stencil that contains the linear combination of the first derivative information of the local and global stencils. The performance enhancement of the WENO scheme through this reference smoothness indicator is verified through the standard numerical experiments. Numerical results indicate that the new scheme provides better results in comparison with the earlier third-order WENO schemes like WENO-JS and WENO-Z. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.