A modified high-order symmetrical WENO scheme for hyperbolic conservation laws

Abstract This paper designs a modified weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) scheme for solving hyperbolic conservation laws. Using the switching principle based on inflection points, the new scheme automatically adapts between linear upwind and WENO schemes. If there is at least one inflection point in the largest stencil available for reconstruction, a symmetrical WENO (SWENO) scheme is considered for the reconstruction of the numerical flux; otherwise the numerical flux is directly approximated by the reconstruction polynomial. By comparing the new scheme introduced in this paper with the classical WENO scheme and another improved scheme that has been proposed recently D. Chai, G. Xi, Z. Sun, Z. Wangand Z. Huang,Comput. Fluids, vol. 170, pp. 176–186, 2018), we can point out the robustness and better efficiency of this scheme. To examine and explain the features of the new scheme, a number of examples such as Euler equations have been considered.