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We present a high-order hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin method for the numerical solution of time-dependent three-phase flow in heterogeneous porous media. The underlying algorithm is a semi-implicit operator splitting approach that…
We extend the applicability of the popular interior-penalty discontinuous Galerkin (dG) method discretizing advection-diffusion-reaction problems to meshes comprising extremely general, essentially arbitrarily-shaped element shapes. In…
An energy-based discontinuous Galerkin method for the advective wave equation is proposed and analyzed. Energy-conserving or energy-dissipating methods follow from simple, mesh-independent choices of the inter-element fluxes, and both…
Quantum field theory on rotating black hole spacetimes is plagued with technical difficulties. Here, we describe a general method to renormalize and compute the vacuum polarization of a quantum field in the Hartle-Hawking state on rotating…
We construct approximate initial data for non-spinning black hole binary systems by asymptotically matching the 4-metrics of two tidally perturbed Schwarzschild solutions in isotropic coordinates to a resummed post-Newtonian 4-metric in…
Based on the Jacobi polynomial expansion, an arbitrary high-order Discontinuous Galerkin solver for compressible flows on unstructured meshes is proposed in the present work. First, we construct orthogonal polynomials for 2D and 3D…
In this work, we consider the approximation of parametric maps using the so-called Galerkin POD-NN method. This technique combines the computation of a reduced basis via proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) and artificial neural networks…
We present a novel high-order accurate nodal discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for solving nonlinear hyperbolic systems of partial differential equations (PDEs) on fully unstructured three-dimensional polyhedral meshes. A mesh generator is…
This chapter reviews and compares discontinuous Galerkin time-stepping methods for the numerical approximation of second-order ordinary differential equations, particularly those stemming from space finite element discretization of wave…
The application of discontinuous Galerkin (DG) schemes to hyperbolic systems of conservation laws requires a careful interplay between space discretization, carried out with local polynomials and numerical fluxes at inter-cells, and…
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…
We present improved post-Newtonian-inspired initial data for non-spinning black-hole binaries, suitable for numerical evolution with punctures. We revisit the work of Tichy et al. [W. Tichy, B. Bruegmann, M. Campanelli, and P. Diener, Phys.…
We numerically investigate the dynamics near black hole formation of solutions to the Einstein--Vlasov system in axisymmetry. Our results are obtained using a particle-in-cell and finite difference code based on the $(2+1)+1$ formulation of…
I describe approaches to the study of black hole spacetimes via numerical relativity. After a brief review of the basic formalisms and techniques used in numerical black hole simulations, I discuss a series of calculations from axisymmetry…
We carry out idealized three-dimensional general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of prograde, weakly magnetized, and geometrically thick accretion flows where the gas distribution is misaligned from the black hole spin…
In this paper, we introduce a new, fast data assimilation algorithm for a 2D linear advection equation with divergence-free coefficients. We first apply the nodal discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method to discretize the advection equation, and…
We present the first results for Cauchy nonlinear evolution of 3D, nonaxisymmetric distorted black holes. We focus on the extraction and verification of 3D waveforms determined by numerical relativity. We show that the black hole evolution…
A framework for performing dynamic mesh adaptation with the discontinuous Galerkin method (DGM) is presented. Adaptations include modifications of the local mesh step size (h-adaptation) and the local degree of the approximating polynomials…
Intrusive Uncertainty Quantification methods such as stochastic Galerkin are gaining popularity, whereas the classical stochastic Galerkin approach is not ensured to preserve hyperbolicity of the underlying hyperbolic system. We apply a…
A high-order accurate implicit-mesh discontinuous Galerkin framework for wave propagation in single-phase and bi-phase solids is presented. The framework belongs to the embedded-boundary techniques and its novelty regards the spatial…