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We develop a new finite difference method for the wave equation in second order form. The finite difference operators satisfy a summation-by-parts (SBP) property. With boundary conditions and material interface conditions imposed weakly by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Siyang Wang , Daniel Appelö , Gunilla Kreiss

By employing non-equispaced grid points near boundaries, boundary-optimized upwind finite-difference operators of orders up to nine are developed. The boundary closures are constructed within a diagonal-norm summation-by-parts (SBP)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Ken Mattsson , David Niemelä , Andrew R. Winters

In this paper, we show that diagonal-norm summation by parts (SBP) discretizations of general non-conservative systems of hyperbolic balance laws can be rewritten as a finite-volume-type formula, also known as flux-differencing formula, if…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-28 Andrés M Rueda-Ramírez , Gregor J Gassner

The paper presents high-order accurate, energy-, and entropy-stable discretizations constructed from summation-by-parts (SBP) operators. Notably, the discretizations assemble global SBP operators and use continuous solutions, unlike…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-13 Jason E. Hicken

Robust and convergent high-order numerical methods for solving partial differential equations are highly attractive due to their efficiency on modern and next-generation hardware architectures. However, designing such methods for nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Dougal Stewart , Nathan Lee , Kenneth Duru

Multidimensional diagonal-norm summation-by-parts (SBP) operators with collocated volume and facet nodes, known as diagonal-$ \mathsf{E} $ operators, are attractive for entropy-stable discretizations from an efficiency standpoint. However,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Zelalem Arega Worku , Jason E. Hicken , David W. Zingg

We present a new class of efficient and robust discontinuous spectral-element methods of arbitrary order for nonlinear hyperbolic systems of conservation laws on curved triangular and tetrahedral unstructured grids. Such discretizations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Tristan Montoya , David W. Zingg

We consider the numerical simulation of the acoustic wave equations arising from seismic applications, for which staggered grid finite difference methods are popular choices due to their simplicity and efficiency. We relax the uniform grid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-20 Longfei Gao , David C. Del Rey Fernandez , Mark Carpenter , David Keyes

This article extends the theory of classical finite-difference summation-by-parts (FD-SBP) time-marching methods to the generalized summation-by-parts (GSBP) framework. Dual-consistent GSBP time-marching methods are shown to retain: A and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-26 Pieter D. Boom , David W. Zingg

High-order accurate summation-by-parts (SBP) finite difference (FD) methods constitute efficient numerical methods for simulating large-scale hyperbolic wave propagation problems. Traditional SBP FD operators that approximate first-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Kenneth Duru , Frederick Fung , Christopher Williams

Summation-By-Parts (SBP) methods provide a systematic way of constructing provably stable numerical schemes. However, many proofs of convergence and accuracy rely on the assumption that the SBP operator possesses a particular eigenvalue…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Viktor Linders

High-order finite difference methods are efficient, easy to program, scales well in multiple dimensions and can be modified locally for various reasons (such as shock treatment for example). The main drawback have been the complicated and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Magnus Svärd , Jan Nordström

The scaled boundary finite element method (SBFEM) has recently been employed as an efficient means to model three-dimensional structures, in particular when the geometry is provided as a voxel-based image. To this end, an octree…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Hauke Gravenkamp , Albert A. Saputra , Sascha Eisenträger

This work focuses on developing high-order energy-stable schemes for wave-dominated problems in closed domains using staggered finite-difference summation-by-parts (SBP FD) operators. We extend the previously presented uniform staggered…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-14 V. Shashkin , G. Goyman , I. Tretyak

The scalar, one-dimensional advection equation and heat equation are considered. These equations are discretized in space, using a finite difference method satisfying summation-by-parts (SBP) properties. To impose the boundary conditions,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-21 Sofia Eriksson

Multidimensional population balance models (PBMs) describe chemical and biological processes having a distribution over two or more intrinsic properties (such as size and age, or two independent spatial variables). The incorporation of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Pavan Inguva , Richard D. Braatz

We analyze the stability and functional superconvergence of discretizations of diffusion problems with the narrow-stencil second-derivative generalized summation-by-parts (SBP) operators coupled with simultaneous approximation terms (SATs).…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Zelalem Arega Worku , David W. Zingg

The correction procedure via reconstruction (CPR, formerly known as flux reconstruction) is a framework of high order methods for conservation laws, unifying some discontinuous Galerkin, spectral difference and spectral volume methods.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-26 Hendrik Ranocha , Philipp Öffner , Thomas Sonar

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

A novel boundary element method (BEM) removes the classical dependence on explicit fundamental solutions and extends quasi-optimal BEM discretisations to strongly elliptic operators with variable coefficients. The approach constructs a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Benedikt Gräßle , Stefan A. Sauter