On a doubly reduced model for dynamics of heterogeneous mixtures of stiffened gases, its regularizations and their implementations

Chaos. 2023. Vol. 33. No. 11. Article 113128.

Zlotnik A., Lomonosov T.

We deal with the reduced four-equation model for the dynamics of heterogeneous compressible binary mixtures with the stiffened gas equations of state. We study its further reduced form, with the excluded volume concentrations, and with a quadratic equation for the common pressure of the components; this form can be called a quasi-homogeneous  form. We prove new properties of the equation, derive simple formulas for the squared speed of sound and present an alternative proof for a formula that relates it to the squared Wood speed of sound; also, a short derivation of the pressure balance equation is given. For the first time, we introduce regularizations of the heterogeneous model (in the quasi-homogeneous form). Previously, regularizations of such type were  developed only for the homogeneous mixtures of perfect polytropic gases, and it was unclear how to cover the case considered here. In the 1D case, based on these regularizations, we construct new explicit two-level in time and symmetric three-point in space finite-difference schemes without limiters, and provide numerical results for various flows with shock waves.

Keywords: computer simulation, finite-difference scheme, stiffened gas, quasi-gasdynamic regularization, heterogeneous binary mixtures, compressible gases and fluids, quasi-homogeneous form, speed of sound