A positivity preserving strategy for entropy stable discontinuous Galerkin discretizations of the compressible Euler and Navier-Stokes equations

Abstract

High-order entropy-stable discontinuous Galerkin methods for the compressible Euler and Navier-Stokes equations require the positivity of thermodynamic quantities in order to guarantee their well-posedness. In this work, we introduce a positivity limiting strategy for entropy-stable discontinuous Galerkin discretizations based on convex limiting. The key ingredient in the limiting procedure is a low order positivity-preserving discretization based on graph viscosity terms. The proposed limiting strategy is both positivity preserving and discretely entropy-stable for the compressible Euler and Navier-Stokes equations. Numerical experiments confirm the high order accuracy and robustness of the proposed strategy.