480 RWTH Publication No: 726581        2018        IGPM480.pdf
TITLE Well-balanced scheme for gas-flow in pipeline networks
AUTHORS Yogiraj Mantri, Michael Herty, Sebastian Noelle
ABSTRACT Gas flow through pipeline networks can be described using 2 × 2 hyperbolic balance laws along with coupling conditions at nodes. The numerical solution at steady state is highly sensitive to these coupling conditions and also to the balance between flux and source terms within the pipes. To avoid spurious oscillations for near equilibrium flows, it is essential to design well-balanced schemes. Recently Chertock, Herty & Özcan [11] introduced a well-balanced method for general 2×2 systems of balance laws. In this paper, we extend this approach to a network of pipes. We prove well-balancing for different coupling conditions and for compressors stations, and demonstrate the advantage of the scheme by numerical experiments.
KEYWORDS hyperbolic conservation laws, well-balanced schemes, gas flow networks
DOI 10.3934/nhm.2019026
PUBLICATION American Institute of Mathematical Sciences
14(4), pp 659-67