Eriksson, Lars E.; Rizzi, Arthur Computer-aided analysis of the convergence to steady state of discrete approximations to the Euler equations. (English) Zbl 0624.76078 J. Comput. Phys. 57, 90-128 (1985). The behaviour of a centered finite volume scheme for the isoenergetic Euler equations in two space dimensions is studied by numerical differentiation and approximate eigensystem analysis. The entire semidiscrete approximation including boundary conditions is formulated as a large system of ordinary differential equations, which are linearized by numerically approximating the Fréchet derivative. An approximate eigensystem procedure that only needs the Fréchet derivative is used to extract the least damped eigenmodes. The overall method has been applied to the case of transonic flow past an airfoil and has revealed that the most persistent transient modes are highly structured and are associated with eigenvalues of small modulus. Furthermore, they appear to be centered around the shock region, the stagnation region and the trailing edge/wake region of the airfoil. The beneficial effect of local time-step scaling and artificial dissipation is also demonstrated by the method. Cited in 13 Documents MSC: 76H05 Transonic flows 76N15 Gas dynamics, general 76M99 Basic methods in fluid mechanics 35Q30 Navier-Stokes equations Keywords:centered finite volume scheme; isoenergetic Euler equations; numerical differentiation; approximate eigensystem analysis; semidiscrete approximation; boundary conditions; Fréchet derivative; transonic flow past an airfoil PDF BibTeX XML Cite \textit{L. E. Eriksson} and \textit{A. Rizzi}, J. Comput. Phys. 57, 90--128 (1985; Zbl 0624.76078) Full Text: DOI References: [1] Lomax, H.; Pulliam, T.H.; Jespersen, D.C., Eigensystem analysis techniques for finite-difference equations. I. multilevel techniques, AIAA paper 81-1027, (1981) [2] Rizzi, A.; Eriksson, L.E., () [3] Eriksson, L.E., A study of mesh singularities and their effects on numerical errors, FFA tech. note TN 1984-10, (1984), Stockholm [4] Denton, J.D., () [5] Arnoldi, W.E., Quart. appl. math., 9, 17-29, (1951) [6] Saad, Y., Linear algebra appl., 34, 269-295, (1980) [7] Gary, J., Math. comp., 18, 1-18, (1964) [8] Jameson, A.; Baker, T., AIAA paper 84-0093, (1984), New York This reference list is based on information provided by the publisher or from digital mathematics libraries. Its items are heuristically matched to zbMATH identifiers and may contain data conversion errors. It attempts to reflect the references listed in the original paper as accurately as possible without claiming the completeness or perfect precision of the matching.