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The construction of stable, conservative, and accurate volume dissipation is extended to discretizations that possess a generalized summation-by-parts (SBP) property within a tensor-product framework. The dissipation operators can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Alex Bercik , David A. Craig Penner , 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

The paper describes the construction of entropy-stable discontinuous Galerkin difference (DGD) discretizations for hyperbolic conservation laws on unstructured grids. The construction takes advantage of existing theory for entropy-stable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-08 Ge Yan , Sharanjeet Kaur , Jeffery W. Banks , Jason E. Hicken

This work focuses on multidimensional summation-by-parts (SBP) discretizations of linear elliptic operators with variable coefficients. We consider a general SBP discretization with dense simultaneous approximation terms (SATs), which serve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-28 Jianfeng Yan , Jared Crean , Jason E. Hicken

We present an approach to construct efficient sparse summation-by-parts (SBP) operators on triangles and tetrahedra with a tensor-product structure. The operators are constructed by splitting the simplices into quadrilateral or hexahedral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-21 Zelalem Arega Worku , Jason E. Hicken , David W. Zingg

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

High order strong stability preserving (SSP) time discretizations are often needed to ensure the nonlinear (and sometimes non-inner-product) strong stability properties of spatial discretizations specially designed for the solution of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-22 Zachary Grant , Sigal Gottlieb , David C Seal

The Lax equivalence theorem guarantees convergence of stable and consistent discretizations for linear hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs). For nonlinear problems, however, stability and consistency alone do not generally…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Zelalem Arega Worku , David C. Del Rey Fernández , 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

High-order entropy stable summation-by-parts (SBP) schemes are a class of robust and accurate numerical methods for hyperbolic conservation laws that are numerically stable at arbitrary order without the need for artificial stabilization.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-18 Christina G. Taylor , Jesse Chan

A recent study by Gassner et al. [J. Sci. Comput. 90:79 (2022)] demonstrates that local energy stability--that is, ensuring the asymptotic numerical growth rate does not exceed the continuous growth rate--is crucial for achieving accurate…

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

High-order Hadamard-form entropy stable multidimensional summation-by-parts discretizations of the Euler and compressible Navier-Stokes equations are considerably more expensive than the standard divergence-form discretization. In search of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-02 Zelalem Arega Worku , David W. Zingg

High-order methods for conservation laws can be highly efficient if their stability is ensured. A suitable means mimicking estimates of the continuous level is provided by summation-by-parts (SBP) operators and the weak enforcement of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Hendrik Ranocha

This study proposes a novel spatial discretization procedure for the compressible Euler equations which guarantees entropy conservation at a discrete level when an arbitrary equation of state is assumed. The proposed method, based on a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-24 Alessandro Aiello , Carlo De Michele , Gennaro Coppola

We investigate the construction and performance of summation-by-parts (SBP) operators, which offer a powerful framework for the systematic development of structure-preserving numerical discretizations of partial differential equations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Jan Glaubitz , Armin Iske , Joshua Lampert , Philipp Öffner

We develop a numerical method for solving the acoustic wave equation in covariant form on staggered curvilinear grids in an energy conserving manner. The use of a covariant basis decomposition leads to a rotationally invariant scheme that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Ossian O'Reilly , N. Anders Petersson

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 are finite-difference operators that mimic integration by parts. This property can be useful in constructing energy-stable discretizations of partial differential vequations. SBP operators are defined by a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Jason E. Hicken , David W. Zingg

Summation-by-parts (SBP) finite-difference discretizations share many attractive properties with Galerkin finite-element methods (FEMs), including time stability and superconvergent functionals; however, unlike FEMs, SBP operators are not…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-07 Jason E. Hicken , David C. Del Rey Fernández , David W. Zingg

The construction of high order entropy stable collocation schemes on quadrilateral and hexahedral elements has relied on the use of Gauss-Legendre-Lobatto collocation points and their equivalence with summation-by-parts (SBP) finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-06 Jesse Chan , David C. Del Rey Fernandez , Mark H. Carpenter
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