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Large eddy simulation (LES) has been increasingly used to tackle vortex-dominated turbulent flows. In LES, the quality of the simulation results hinges upon the quality of the numerical discretizations in both space and time. It is in this…
Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods offer an enormous flexibility regarding local grid refinement and variation of polynomial degrees for a variety of different problem classes. With a focus on diffusion problems, we consider DG…
A discontinuous Galerkin method for the ideal 5 moment two-fluid plasma system is presented. The method uses a second or third order discontinuous Galerkin spatial discretization and a third order TVD Runge-Kutta time stepping scheme. The…
Anomalous diffusions are ubiquitous in nature, whose functional distributions are governed by the backward Feynman-Kac equation. In this paper, the local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) method is used to solve the 2D backward Feynman-Kac…
Some properties of a Local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) algorithm are demonstrated for the problem of evaluting a second derivative $g = f_{xx}$ for a given $f$. (This is a somewhat unusual problem, but it is useful for understanding the…
Grad-div stabilization is a classical remedy in conforming mixed finite element methods for incompressible flow problems, for mitigating velocity errors that are sometimes called poor mass conservation. Such errors arise due to the…
This paper proposes and analyzes two fully discrete mixed interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for the fourth order nonlinear Cahn-Hilliard equation. Both methods use the backward Euler method for time discretization and…
In this paper, we present error estimates of fully discrete Runge--Kutta discontinuous Galerkin (DG) schemes for linear time-dependent partial differential equations. The analysis applies to explicit Runge--Kutta time discretizations of any…
In this paper, we investigate the stability and time-step constraints for solving advection-diffusion equations using exponential time differencing (ETD) Runge-Kutta (RK) methods in time and discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods in space. We…
We propose an arbitrarily high-order globally divergence-free entropy stable nodal discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method to directly solve the conservative form of the ideal MHD equations using appropriate quadrature rules. The method ensures…
Penalty fluxes are dissipative numerical fluxes for high order discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods which depend on a penalization parameter. We investigate the dependence of the spectra of high order DG discretizations on this parameter,…
In this paper, we develop an ultra-weak discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method to solve the one-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. Stability conditions and error estimates are derived for the scheme with a general class of numerical…
In this paper, we present a numerical scheme designed for coupled systems of variable-topography shallow water flow and solute transport. By integrating a variable-density system with an expression for relative density of mixtures, a novel…
This paper considers the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for solving the Vlasov-Maxwell (VM) system, a fundamental model for collisionless magnetized plasma. The DG methods provide accurate numerical description with conservation and…
In this paper, we develop a sparse grid discontinuous Galerkin (DG) scheme for transport equations and applied it to kinetic simulations. The method uses the weak formulations of traditional Runge-Kutta DG (RKDG) schemes for hyperbolic…
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…
We design, analyze, and implement a new conservative Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for the simulation of solitary wave solutions to the generalized Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) Equation. The key feature of our method is the conservation, at…
Entropy stable discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods display improved robustness for problems with shocks, turbulence, and under-resolved features by enforcing an entropy inequality. Such methods have traditionally relied on entropy…
The discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method is widely being used to solve hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs) due to its ability to provide high-order accurate solutions in complex geometries, capture discontinuities, and exhibit…
We derive a priori and a posteriori error estimates for the discontinuous Galerkin (dG) approximation of the time-harmonic Maxwell's equations. Specifically, we consider an interior penalty dG method, and establish error estimates that are…