Non-polynomial ENO and WENO finite volume methods for hyperbolic conservation laws

The essentially non-oscillatory (ENO) method is an efficient high order numerical method for solving hyperbolic conservation laws designed to reduce the Gibbs oscillations, if existent, by adaptively choosing the local stencil for the interpolation. The original ENO method is constructed based on the polynomial interpolation and the overall rate of convergence provided by the method is uniquely determined by the total number of interpolation points involved for the approximation. In this paper, we propose simple non-polynomial ENO and weighted ENO (WENO) finite volume methods in order to enhance the local accuracy and convergence. We first adopt the infinitely smooth radial basis functions (RBFs) for a non-polynomial interpolation. Particularly we use the multi-quadric and Gaussian RBFs. The nonpolynomial interpolation such as the RBF interpolation offers the flexibility to control the local error by optimizing the free parameter. Then we show that the non-polynomial interpolation can be represented as a perturbation of the polynomial interpolation. That is, it is not necessary to know the exact form of the non-polynomial basis for the interpolation. In this paper, we formulate the ENO and WENO methods based on the non-polynomial interpolation and derive the optimization condition of the perturbation. To guarantee the essentially non-oscillatory property, we switch the non-polynomial reconstruction to the polynomial reconstruction adaptively near the non-smooth area by using the monotone polynomial interpolation method. The numerical results show that the developed non-polynomial ENO and WENO methods enhance the local accuracy. keywords Essentially non-oscillatory method, Weighted essentially non-oscillatory method, Radial basis function interpolation, Finite volume method, Hyperbolic conservation laws.