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We have developed the formalism necessary to employ the discontinuous-Galerkin approach in general-relativistic hydrodynamics. The formalism is firstly presented in a general 4-dimensional setting and then specialized to the case of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-08 David Radice , Luciano Rezzolla

We propose an efficient variant of a primal Discontinuous Galerkin method with interior penalty for the second order elliptic equations on very general meshes (polytopes with eventually curved boundaries). Efficiency, especially when higher…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-18 Alexei Lozinski

In this work we discuss the numerical discretization of the time-dependent Maxwell's equations using a fully explicit leap-frog type discontinuous Galerkin method. We present a sufficient condition for the stability, for cases of typical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-26 Adérito Araújo , Sílvia Barbeiro , Maryam Khaksar Ghalati

A stochastic Galerkin formulation for a stochastic system of balanced or conservation laws may fail to preserve hyperbolicity of the original system. In this work, we develop hyperbolicity-preserving stochastic Galerkin formulation for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-21 Dihan Dai , Yekaterina Epshteyn , Akil Narayan

We analyze Galerkin discretizations of a new well-posed mixed space-time variational formulation of parabolic PDEs. For suitable pairs of finite element trial spaces, the resulting Galerkin operators are shown to be uniformly stable. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-07 Rob Stevenson , Jan Westerdiep

Energy conserving particle-in-cell schemes are constructed for a class of reduced relativistic Vlasov--Maxwell equations of laser-plasma interaction. Discrete Poisson equation is also satisfied by the numerical solution. Specifically,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Yingzhe Li

The study of uncertainty propagation poses a great challenge to design numerical solvers with high fidelity. Based on the stochastic Galerkin formulation, this paper addresses the idea and implementation of the first flux reconstruction…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-12-14 Tianbai Xiao , Jonas Kusch , Julian Koellermeier , Martin Frank

This paper introduces new discretization schemes for time-harmonic Maxwell equations in a connected domain by using the weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method. The corresponding WG algorithms are analyzed for their stability and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-17 Chunmei Wang

An error analysis of a mixed discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method with Brezzi numerical flux for the time-harmonic Maxwell equations with minimal smoothness requirements is presented. The key difficulty in the error analysis for the DG method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Kaifang Liu , Dietmar Gallistl , Matthias Schlottbom , J. J. W. van der Vegt

In recent years, stochastic effects have become increasingly relevant for describing fluid behaviour, particularly in the context of turbulence. The most important model for inviscid fluids in computational fluid dynamics are the Euler…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-11 Dominic Breit , Thamsanqa Castern Moyo , Philipp Öffner

This paper presents a conservative discontinuous Galerkin method for the simulation of supercritical and transcritical real-fluid flows without phase separation. A well-known issue associated with the use of fully conservative schemes is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-23 Eric J. Ching , Ryan F. Johnson

We propose a high-order discontinuous Galerkin scheme for nonlinear acoustic waves on polytopic meshes. To model sound propagation with and without losses, we use Westervelt's nonlinear wave equation with and without strong damping.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-20 Paola. F. Antonietti , Ilario Mazzieri , Markus Muhr , Vanja Nikolić , Barbara Wohlmuth

This paper proposes and analyzes a fully discrete scheme that discretizes space with an ultra-weak local discontinuous Galerkin scheme and time with the Crank--Nicolson method for the nonlinear biharmonic Schr\"odinger equation. We first…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-15 Lu Zhang

In this paper, we develop discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for the Ostrovsky-Vakhnenko (OV) equation, which yields the shock solutions and singular soliton solutions, such as peakon, cuspon and loop solitons. The OV equation has also…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-13 Qian Zhang , Yinhua Xia

In this work, we establish that discontinuous Galerkin methods are capable of producing reliable approximations for a broad class of nonlinear variational problems. In particular, we demonstrate that these schemes provide essential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Georgios Grekas , Konstantinos Koumatos , Charalambos Makridakis , Andreas Vikelis

We develop a hybrid spatial discretization for the wave equation in second order form, based on high-order accurate finite difference methods and discontinuous Galerkin methods. The hybridization combines computational efficiency of finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-26 Siyang Wang , Gunilla Kreiss

Continuum computational kinetic plasma models evolve the distribution function of a plasma species $f_s$ on a phase-space grid over time. In many problems of interest the distribution function has limited extent in velocity space; hence,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Manaure Francisquez , Petr Cagas , Akash Shukla , James Juno , Gregory W. Hammett

We develop 3rd order maximum-principle-satisfying direct discontinuous Galerkin methods [8, 9, 19, 21] for convection diffusion equations on unstructured triangular mesh. We carefully calculate the normal derivative numerical flux across…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-17 Zheng Chen , Hongying Huang , Jue Yan

A novel approach for the stabilization of the discontinuous Galerkin method based on the Dafermos entropy rate crition is presented. The approach is centered around the efficient solution of linear or nonlinear optimization problems in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-02 Simon-Christian Klein

We present a stabilized, structure-preserving finite element framework for solving the Vlasov-Maxwell equations. The method uses a tensor product of continuous polynomial spaces for the spatial and velocity domains, respectively, to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Katharina Kormann , Murtazo Nazarov , Junjie Wen