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This paper presents a fully discrete numerical scheme for one-dimensional nonlocal wave equations and provides a rigorous theoretical analysis. To facilitate the spatial discretization, we introduce an auxiliary variable analogous to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Qiang Du , Kui Ren , Lu Zhang , Yin Zhou

We investigate the numerical performance of a Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) hydrodynamics implementation when applied to the problem of driven, isothermal supersonic turbulence. While the high-order element-based spectral approach of DG is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-03 Miha Cernetic , Volker Springel , Thomas Guillet , Rüdiger Pakmor

Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods have a long history in computational physics and engineering to approximate solutions of partial differential equations due to their high-order accuracy and geometric flexibility. However, DG is not…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-06 Andrew R. Winters , David A. Kopriva , Gregor J. Gassner , Florian Hindenlang

We develop a stable and high-order accurate discontinuous Galerkin method for the second order wave equation, specifically designed to handle nonsmooth solutions. Our approach integrates the energy-based discontinuous Galerkin method with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Yangxin Fu , Yan Jiang , Siyang Wang

This paper presents a porting of {DG-SWEM}, a first-order discontinuous Galerkin solver for storm surge based on the Advanced Circulation Model (ADCIRC), to NVIDIA GPUs. Time-explicit discontinuous Galerkin methods contain a large number of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Chayanon Wichitrnithed , Eirik Valseth , Ethan J. Kubatko , Shintaro Bunya , Clint Dawson

We present a novel implementation of the modal discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for hyperbolic conservation laws in two dimensions on graphics processing units (GPUs) using NVIDIA's Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA). Both…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-02-01 Martin Fuhry , Andrew Giuliani , Lilia Krivodonova

The diffusive-viscous wave equation is an advancement in wave equation theory, as it accounts for both diffusion and viscosity effects. This has a wide range of applications in geophysics, such as the attenuation of seismic waves in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-26 Jingbo Sun , Fei Wang

A new modified Galerkin / Finite Element Method is proposed for the numerical solution of the fully nonlinear shallow water wave equations. The new numerical method allows the use of low-order Lagrange finite element spaces, despite the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Dimitrios Mitsotakis , Costas Synolakis , Mark Mcguinness

We present a new class of high-order accurate numerical algorithms for solving the equations of general-relativistic ideal magnetohydrodynamics in curved spacetimes. In this paper we assume the background spacetime to be given and static,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-05-28 Francesco Fambri , Michael Dumbser , Sven Köppel , Luciano Rezzolla , Olindo Zanotti

Computational models based on the depth-averaged shallow water equations (SWE) offer an efficient choice to analyse velocity fields around hydraulic structures. Second-order finite volume (FV2) solvers have often been used for this purpose…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-26 Janice Lynn Ayog , Georges Kesserwani , Domenico Baú

This paper develops a high order adaptive scheme for solving nonlinear Schrodinger equations. The solutions to such equations often exhibit solitary wave and local structures, which makes adaptivity essential in improving the simulation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-06 Zhanjing Tao , Juntao Huang , Yuan Liu , Wei Guo , Yingda Cheng

We present a high-order entropy stable discontinuous Galerkin (ESDG) method for the two dimensional shallow water equations (SWE) on curved triangular meshes. The presented scheme preserves a semi-discrete entropy inequality and remains…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-16 Xinhui Wu , Jesse Chan , Ethan Kubatko

Unstructured grid ocean models are advantageous for simulating the coastal ocean and river-estuary-plume systems. However, unstructured grid models tend to be diffusive and/or computationally expensive which limits their applicability to…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 Tuomas Kärnä , Stephan C. Kramer , Lawrence Mitchell , David A. Ham , Matthew D. Piggott , António M. Baptista

The discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element method is conservative, lends itself well to parallelization, and is high-order accurate due to its close affinity with the theory of quadrature and orthogonal polynomials. When applied with an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-01 D. W. Crews

The two-fluid plasma model has a wide range of timescales which must all be numerically resolved regardless of the timescale on which plasma dynamics occurs. The answer to solving numerically stiff systems is generally to utilize…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-06 Andrew Ho , Uri Shumlak

We present a hybrid continuous and discontinuous Galerkin spectral element approximation that leverages the advantages of each approach. The continuous Galerkin approximation is used on interior element faces where the equation properties…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-14 David A. Kopriva , Gregor J. Gassner

The high-order numerical solution of the non-linear shallow water equations (and of hyperbolic systems in general) is susceptible to unphysical Gibbs oscillations that form in the proximity of strong gradients. The solution to this problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-18 Simone Marras , Michal A. Kopera , Emil M. Constantinescu , Jenny Suckale , Francis X. Giraldo

We present high order accurate numerical methods for the wave equation that combines efficient Hermite methods with eometrically flexible discontinuous Galerkin methods by using overset grids. Near boundaries we use thin boundary fitted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-10 Oleksii Beznosov , Daniel Appelö

A discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method suitable for large-scale astrophysical simulations on Cartesian meshes as well as arbitrary static and moving Voronoi meshes is presented. Most major astrophysical fluid dynamics codes use a finite…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Philip Mocz , Mark Vogelsberger , Debora Sijacki , Ruediger Pakmor , Lars Hernquist

In this paper, the discontinuous Galerkin based high-order gas-kinetic schemes (DG-HGKS) are developed for the three-dimensional Euler and Navier-Stokes equations. Different from the traditional discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Yuhang Wang , Liang Pan