Stabilized Isogeometric Collocation Methods for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws

Abstract: We introduce stabilized spline collocation schemes for the numerical solution of nonlinear, hyperbolic conservation laws. A nonlinear, residual-based viscosity stabilization is combined with a projection stabilization-inspired linear operator to stabilize the scheme in the presence of shocks and prevent the propagation of spurious, small-scale oscillations. Due to the nature of collocation schemes, these methods possess the possibility for greatly reduced computational cost of high-order discretizations. Numerical results for the linear advection, Burgers, Buckley-Leverett, and Euler equations show that the scheme is robust in the presence of shocks while maintaining high-order accuracy on smooth problems.