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An interface-tracking space-time hybridizable/embedded discontinuous Galerkin method for nonlinear free-surface flows

Numerical Analysis 2023-07-10 v1 Numerical Analysis

Abstract

We present a compatible space-time hybridizable/embedded discontinuous Galerkin discretization for nonlinear free-surface waves. We pose this problem in a two-fluid (liquid and gas) domain and use a time-dependent level-set function to identify the sharp interface between the two fluids. The incompressible two-fluidd equations are discretized by an exactly mass conserving space-time hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin method while the level-set equation is discretized by a space-time embedded discontinuous Galerkin method. Different from alternative discontinuous Galerkin methods is that the embedded discontinuous Galerkin method results in a continuous approximation of the interface. This, in combination with the space-time framework, results in an interface-tracking method without resorting to smoothing techniques or additional mesh stabilization terms.

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@article{arxiv.2110.13779,
  title  = {An interface-tracking space-time hybridizable/embedded discontinuous Galerkin method for nonlinear free-surface flows},
  author = {Giselle Sosa Jones and Sander Rhebergen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.13779},
  year   = {2023}
}
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