English
Related papers

Related papers: The multi-dimensional Hermite-discontinuous Galerk…

200 papers

A discontinuous Galerkin method for approximating the Vlasov-Poisson system of equations describing the time evolution of a collisionless plasma is proposed. The method is mass conservative and, in the case that piecewise constant functions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-10-04 R. E. Heath , I. M. Gamba , P. J. Morrison , C. Michler

We study the conservation properties of the Hermite-discontinuous Galerkin (Hermite-DG) approximation of the Vlasov-Maxwell equations. In this semi-discrete formulation, the total mass is preserved independently for every plasma species.…

In this paper, we present a staggered discontinuous Galerkin (SDG) method for a class of nonlinear elliptic equations in two dimensions. The SDG methods have some distinctive advantages, and have been successfully applied to a wide range of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-10 Eric T. Chung , Ming Fai Lam , Chi Yeung Lam

The discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method is an established method for computing approximate solutions of partial differential equations in many applications. Unlike continuous finite elements, in DG methods, numerical fluxes are used to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Kenneth Duru , Leonhard Rannabauer , Alice-Agnes Gabriel , Heiner Igel

Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods have a long history in computational physics and engineering to approximate solutions of partial differential equations due to their high-order accuracy and geometric flexibility. However, DG is not…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-06 Andrew R. Winters , David A. Kopriva , Gregor J. Gassner , Florian Hindenlang

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

This paper develops and analyses semi-discrete numerical method for two dimensional Vlasov-Stokes' system with periodic boundary condition. The method is based on coupling of semi-discrete discontinuous Galerkin method for the Vlasov…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-18 Harsha Hutridurga , Krishan Kumar , Amiya K. Pani

We present a stable discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method with a perfectly matched layer (PML) for three and two space dimensional linear elastodynamics, in velocity-stress formulation, subject to well-posed linear boundary conditions. First,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Kenneth Duru , Leonhard Rannabauer , Alice-Agnes Gabriel , Gunilla Kreiss , Michael Bader

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…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 John Loverich , Ammar Hakim , Uri Shumlak

We discuss two approaches for the formulation and implementation of space-time discontinuous Galerkin spectral element methods (DG-SEM). In one, time is treated as an additional coordinate direction and a Galerkin procedure is applied to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-04 Lea M. Versbach , Viktor Linders , Robert Klöfkorn , Philipp Birken

We present and analyze a novel space-time hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method for the linear free-surface problem on prismatic space-time meshes. We consider a mixed formulation which immediately allows us to compute the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Giselle Sosa Jones , Jeonghun J. Lee , Sander Rhebergen

The interaction of light with metallic nanostructures produces a collective excitation of electrons at the metal surface, also known as surface plasmons. These collective excitations lead to resonances that enable the confinement of light…

A novel space-time discretization for the (linear) scalar-valued dissipative wave equation is presented. It is a structured approach, namely, the discretization space is obtained tensorizing the Virtual Element (VE) discretization in space…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-31 Paola Francesca Antonietti , Francesca Bonizzoni , Marco Verani

This paper constitutes our initial effort in developing sparse grid discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for high-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs). Over the past few decades, DG methods have gained popularity in many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-20 Zixuan Wang , Qi Tang , Wei Guo , Yingda Cheng

Sparse-grid methods have recently gained interest in reducing the computational cost of solving high-dimensional kinetic equations. In this paper, we construct adaptive and hybrid sparse-grid methods for the Vlasov-Poisson-Lenard-Bernstein…

In this paper we propose a novel arbitrary high order accurate semi-implicit space-time DG method for the solution of the three-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations on staggered unstructured curved tetrahedral meshes. As…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-22 Maurizio Tavelli , Michael Dumbser

Design of modern nanostructured semiconductor devices often calls for simulation tools capable of modeling arbitrarily-shaped multiscale geometries. In this work, to this end, a discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method-based framework is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-03 Liang Chen , Hakan Bagci

We present a new $hp$-version space-time discontinuous Galerkin (dG) finite element method for the numerical approximation of parabolic evolution equations on general spatial meshes consisting of polygonal/polyhedral (polytopic) elements,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-07 Andrea Cangiani , Zhaonan Dong , Emmanuil H. Georgoulis

Understanding fundamental kinetic processes is important for many problems, from plasma physics to gas dynamics. A first-principles approach to these problems requires a statistical description via the Boltzmann equation, coupled to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Ammar Hakim , James Juno

A finite element method for the solution of the time-dependent Maxwell equations in mixed form is presented. The method allows for local $hp$-refinement in space and in time. To this end, a space-time Galerkin approach is employed. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-18 Martin Lilienthal , Sascha M. Schnepp , Thomas Weiland