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Matrix-free geometric multigrid solvers for elliptic PDEs that have been discretised with Higher-order Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods are ideally suited to exploit state-of-the-art computer architectures. Higher polynomial degrees…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Sean Baccas , Alexander A. Belozerov , Eike H. Müller , Tobias Weinzierl

Finite element schemes based on discontinuous Galerkin methods possess features amenable to massively parallel computing accelerated with general purpose graphics processing units (GPUs). However, the computational performance of such…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 Axel Modave , Amik St-Cyr , Tim Warburton

The entropy-stable discontinuous Galerkin method for compressible Euler equations with buoyancy is implemented on graphics processing unit (GPU) hardware. We measure the performance of the solver on three-dimensional problems: the rising…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Henry Waterhouse , Maciej Waruszewski , Lucas C. Wilcox , Francis X. Giraldo

Understanding fundamental kinetic processes is important for many problems, from plasma physics to gas dynamics. A first-principles approach to these problems requires a statistical description via the Boltzmann equation, coupled to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Ammar Hakim , James Juno

We present an efficient discontinuous Galerkin scheme for simulation of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations including laminar and turbulent flow. We consider a semi-explicit high-order velocity-correction method for time integration…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-15 Benjamin Krank , Niklas Fehn , Wolfgang A. Wall , Martin Kronbichler

Accurate representation of vertical turbulent fluxes is crucial for numerical ocean modelling, both in global and coastal applications. The state-of-the-art approach is to use two-equation turbulence closure models which introduces two…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Tuomas Kärnä

The discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method has been widely considered in recent years to develop scalable flow solvers for its ability to handle discontinuities, such as shocks and detonations, with greater accuracy and high arithmetic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-01-06 Aswin Kumar Arumugam , Konduri Aditya

We consider a stable unique continuation problem for the wave equation where the initial data is lacking and the solution is reconstructed using measurements in some subset of the bulk domain. Typically fairly sophisticated space-time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-09 Erik Burman , Janosch Preuss

We present a discontinuous finite element method for the shallow water equations which exploits high-resolution realistic bathymetry data without any regularity assumption, also in the case of high-order discretizations. We prove a number…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Luca Arpaia , Giuseppe Orlando , Christian Ferrarin , Luca Bonaventura

This paper generalizes the earlier work on the energy-based discontinuous Galerkin method for second-order wave equations to fourth-order semilinear wave equations. We first rewrite the problem into a system with a second-order spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-25 Lu Zhang

In this paper we discuss a new and very efficient implementation of high order accurate ADER discontinuous Galerkin (ADER-DG) finite element schemes on modern massively parallel supercomputers. The numerical methods apply to a very broad…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-20 Michael Dumbser , Francesco Fambri , Maurizio Tavelli , Michael Bader , Tobias Weinzierl

Mathematical modeling at the level of the full cardiovascular system requires the numerical approximation of solutions to a one-dimensional nonlinear hyperbolic system describing flow in a single vessel. This model is often simulated by…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-04-22 Sebastian Acosta , Charles Puelz , Beatrice Riviere , Daniel J. Penny , Craig G. Rusin

We present discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for solving a first-order semi-linear hyperbolic system, which was originally proposed as a continuum model for a one-dimensional dimer lattice of topological resonators. We examine the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-23 Qiang Du , Huaiyu Li , Michael Weinstein , Lu Zhang

This paper presents the implementation of a HLLC finite volume solver using GPU technology for the solution of shallow water problems in two dimensions. It compares both CPU and GPU approaches for implementing all the solver's steps. The…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Fabrice Zaoui

The high-order accurate continuous Galerkin finite element method offers attractive computational efficiency for computational fluid dynamics. A challenge is however spurious oscillations which result for convection dominated flows over…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-10 Arnaud G. Malan , Jan Nordstrom

We develop a high order accurate numerical method for solving the elastic wave equation in second-order form. We hybridize the computationally efficient Cartesian grid formulation of finite differences with geometrically flexible…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Andreas Granath , Siyang Wang

Weak Galerkin (WG) refers to general finite element methods for partial differential equations in which differential operators are approximated by weak forms through the usual integration by parts. In particular, WG methods allow the use of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-11-04 Lin Mu , Junping Wang , Xiu Ye , Shan Zhao

We generalize the energy-based discontinuous Galerkin method proposed in [SIAM J. Num. Anal., 53(6):2705-2726, 2015.] to second-order semilinear wave equations. A stability and convergence analysis is presented along with numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Daniel Appelo , Thomas Hagstrom , Qi Wang , Lu Zhang

We survey finite element methods for approximating the time harmonic Maxwell equations. We concentrate on comparing error estimates for problems with spatially varying coefficients. For the conforming edge finite element methods, such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Peter Monk , Yangwen Zhang

We present a new high-order accurate Lagrangian discontinuous Galerkin (DG) hydrodynamic method to simulate material dynamics (for e.g., gasses, fluids, and solids) with up to fourth-order accuracy on cubic meshes. The variables, such as…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-04 Xiaodong Liu , Nathaniel R. Morgan , Evan J. Lieberman , Donald E. Burton