A FINITE-VOLUME PARTICLE METHOD FOR COMPRESSIBLE FLOWS

Abstract

We derive a new class of particle methods for conservation laws, which are based on numerical flux functions to model the interactions between moving particles. The derivation is similar to that of classical finite-volume methods; except that the fixed spatial mesh in a finite-volume method is substituted by so-called mass packets of particles. We give some numerical results on a shock wave solution for Burgers equation as well as the well-known one-dimensional shock tube problem.