An improved WENO-Z scheme with symmetry-preserving mapping

Since the classical weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) scheme is proposed, various improved versions have been developed, and a typical one is the WENO-Z scheme. Although better resolution is achieved, it is shown in this article that, the result of WENO-Z scheme suffers evident distortion in the long-time simulation of the linear advection equation. In order to fix the problem of WENO-Z, a symmetry-preserving mapping method is proposed in this article. In the original mapping method, the weight of each sub-stencil is used to map, which is demonstrated to cause asymmetric improvement about a discontinuity. This asymmetric improvement will lead to a distorted solution, more severe with longer output time. In the symmetry-preserving mapping method, a new variable related to the smoothness indicator is selected to map, which has the same ideal value for each sub-stencil. Using the new mapping method can not only fix the distortion problem of WENO-Z, but also improve the numerical resolution. Several benchmark problems are conducted to show the improved performance of the resultant scheme.