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High order entropy stable discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for nonlinear conservation laws satisfy an inherent discrete entropy inequality. The construction of such schemes has relied on the use of carefully chosen nodal points or volume…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-06 Jesse Chan

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

Many applications rely on solving time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs) that include second derivatives. Summation-by-parts (SBP) operators are crucial for developing stable, high-order accurate numerical methodologies for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-04 Jan Glaubitz , Simon-Christian Klein , Jan Nordström , Philipp Öffner

This paper is concerned with the accurate, conservative, and stable imposition of boundary conditions and inter-element coupling for multi-dimensional summation-by-parts (SBP) finite-difference operators. More precisely, the focus is on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-09 David C. Del Rey Fernández , Jason E. Hicken , David W. Zingg

Summation-by-parts (SBP) operators allow us to systematically develop energy-stable and high-order accurate numerical methods for time-dependent differential equations. Until recently, the main idea behind existing SBP operators was that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-25 Jan Glaubitz , Simon-Christian Klein , Jan Nordström , Philipp Öffner

Several types of simultaneous approximation term (SAT) for diffusion problems discretized with diagonal-norm multidimensional summation-by-parts (SBP) operators are analyzed based on a common framework. Conditions under which the SBP-SAT…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Zelalem Arega Worku , David W. Zingg

High order methods based on diagonal-norm summation by parts operators can be shown to satisfy a discrete conservation or dissipation of entropy for nonlinear systems of hyperbolic PDEs. These methods can also be interpreted as nodal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Jesse Chan

This work presents an entropy stable discontinuous Galerkin (DG) spectral element approximation for systems of non-linear conservation laws with general geometric (h) and polynomial order (p) non-conforming rectangular meshes. The crux of…

We present a high-order accurate fully discrete numerical scheme for solving Initial Boundary Value Problems (IBVPs) within the Continuous Galerkin (CG)-based Finite Element framework. Both the spatial and time approximation in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Mrityunjoy Mandal , Jan Nordström , Arnaud G Malan

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

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

Nishikawa (2007) proposed to reformulate the classical Poisson equation as a steady state problem for a linear hyperbolic system. This results in optimal error estimates for both the solution of the elliptic equation and its gradient.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Hendrik Ranocha

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

This paper presents a high-order accurate Continuous Galerkin Finite Element Method (CGFEM) for solving the initial boundary value problems governed by the Incompressible Navier-Stokes (INS) equations. We discretize the INS equations using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Mrityunjoy Mandal , Arnaud G Malan , Prince Nchupang , Jan Nordström

The Active Flux method is a numerical method for conservation laws using a combination of cell averages and point values, based on ideas from finite volumes and finite differences. This unusual mix has been shown to work well in many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Wasilij Barsukow , Christian Klingenberg , Lisa Lechner , Jan Nordström , Sigrun Ortleb , Hendrik Ranocha

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

We examine stability of summation by parts (SBP) numerical schemes that use hyperboloidal slices to include future null infinity in the computational domain. This inclusion serves to mitigate outer boundary effects and, in the future, will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-28 Shalabh Gautam , Alex Vañó-Viñuales , David Hilditch , Sukanta Bose

This work examines the development of an entropy conservative (for smooth solutions) or entropy stable (for discontinuous solutions) space-time discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for systems of non-linear hyperbolic conservation laws. The…

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

A recently introduced framework of semidiscretisations for hyperbolic conservation laws known as correction procedure via reconstruction (CPR, also known as flux reconstruction) is considered in the extended setting of summation-by-parts…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-06 Jan Glaubitz , Hendrik Ranocha , Philipp Öffner , Thomas Sonar