Hybrid Scheme

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The upwind scheme uses the value of from the grid point at the upwind side as the value of at the face of the control volume regardless of the grid Peclet number. While this treatment can yield accurate results for cases with high Peclet number, the result will not be accurate for cases where the grid Peclet number is near zero; for which cases the central difference scheme can produce better results. Spalding (1972) proposed a hybrid scheme that uses the central difference scheme when and the upwind scheme when .

To observe the difference between the central difference and upwind schemes, the coefficient for the east neighboring grid point, eqs. (4.215) and (4.222), can be rewritten as

(1)

(2)

The hybrid scheme can then be expressed as

which can be rewritten in the following compact form

(3)

The coefficient for the west neighbor grid point can be obtained using a similar approach.

(4)

The above hybrid scheme combines the advantages of the central difference and upwind schemes to yield better results for cases where or . However, there is still room for improvement of the solution when is near 2 (see Problem 4.23).