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We propose a high order discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for solving nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations with a gradient flow structure. For some of these models it is known that the transient solutions converge to steady-states when time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-12 Hailiang Liu , Zhongming Wang

We propose a new arbitrary high order accurate semi-implicit space-time discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for the solution of the two and three dimensional compressible Euler and Navier-Stokes equations on staggered unstructured curved…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Maurizio Tavelli , Michael Dumbser

In this paper, a time-domain discontinuous Galerkin (TDdG) finite element method for the full system of Maxwell's equations in optics and photonics is investigated, including a complete proof of a semi-discrete error estimate. The new…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Asad Anees , Lutz Angermann

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Sixtine Michel , Lorenzo Diazzi , Walter Boscheri

This paper presents a p-adaptive high-order hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin spectral element method (HDG-SEM) for solving the Poisson equation in electrostatic plasma simulations using particle-in-cell (PIC) schemes. This approach…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 Tobias Ott , Stephen Copplestone , Marcel Pfeiffer

The two-fluid plasma model has a wide range of timescales which must all be numerically resolved regardless of the timescale on which plasma dynamics occurs. The answer to solving numerically stiff systems is generally to utilize…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-06 Andrew Ho , Uri Shumlak

A discontinuous Galerkin (dG) method for the numerical solution of initial/boundary value multi-compartment partial differential equation (PDE) models, interconnected with interface conditions, is presented and analysed. The study of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-16 Andrea Cangiani , Emmanuil H. Georgoulis , Max Jensen

We extend the finite element method introduced by Lakkis and Pryer [2011] to approximate the solution of second order elliptic problems in nonvariational form to incorporate the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) framework. This is done by viewing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-09 Andreas Dedner , Tristan Pryer

In recent years, high-order discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods have emerged as an attractive approach for numerical simulations of compressible flows. This paper presents an overview of the recent development of DG methods for compressible…

A novel discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method is developed to solve time-dependent bi-harmonic type equations involving fourth derivatives in one and multiple space dimensions. We present the spatial DG discretization based on a mixed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-02 Hailiang Liu , Peimeng Yin

In the present paper, we consider the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for solving short pulse (SP) type equations. The short pulse equation has been shown to be completely integrable, which admits the loop-soliton, cuspon-soliton…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Qian Zhang , Yinhua Xia

In an electrostatic simulation, an equipotential condition with an undefined/floating potential value has to be enforced on the surface of an isolated conductor. If this conductor is charged, a nonzero charge condition is also required.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-28 Liang Chen , Ming Dong , Ping Li , Hakan Bagci

We establish a simple, rigorous, and easy to implement connection between the classical continuous finite element method (FEM) and the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for Poisson's problem. The key idea is to insert a vanishing-thickness…

For the simulation of rectilinearly moving conductors across a magnetic field, the Galer-kin finite element method (GFEM) is generally employed. The inherent instability of GFEM is very often addressed by employing Streamline…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-22 Sethupathy Subramanian , Udaya Kumar

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

In this article, we propose high order discontinuous Galerkin entropy stable schemes for ten-moment Gaussian closure equations, which is based on the suitable quadrature rules (see [8]). The key components of the proposed method are the use…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Biswarup Biswas , Harish Kumar , Anshu Yadav

We propose and analyze a seamless extended Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretization of advection-diffusion equations on semi-infinite domains. The semi-infinite half line is split into a finite subdomain where the model uses a standard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-23 Federico Vismara , Tommaso Benacchio , Luca Bonaventura

High-order accurate discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods have emerged as powerful tools for solving partial differential equations such as the compressible Navier-Stokes equations due to their excellent dispersion-dissipation properties and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Patrick Kopper , Anna Schwarz , Jens Keim , Andrea Beck

Unstructured grid ocean models are advantageous for simulating the coastal ocean and river-estuary-plume systems. However, unstructured grid models tend to be diffusive and/or computationally expensive which limits their applicability to…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 Tuomas Kärnä , Stephan C. Kramer , Lawrence Mitchell , David A. Ham , Matthew D. Piggott , António M. Baptista

In this paper, a high order quasi-conservative discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method using the non-oscillatory kinetic flux is proposed for the 5-equation model of compressible multi-component flows with Mie-Gr\"uneisen equation of state. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-04-24 Dongmi Luo , Jianxian Qiu , Jun Zhu , Yibing Chen