A Conservative Staggered-Grid Chebyshev Multidomain Method for Compressible Flows. II. A Semi-Structured Method

We present a Chebyshev multidomain method that can solve systems of hyperbolic equations in conservation form on an unrestricted quadrilateral subdivision of a domain. Within each subdomain the solutions and fluxes are approximated by a staggered-grid Chebyshev method. Thus, the method is unstructured in terms of the subdomain decomposition, but strongly structured within the subdomains. Communication between subdomains is done by a mortar method in such a way that the method is globally conservative. The method is applied to both linear and nonlinear test problems and spectral accuracy is demonstrated.