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Explicit Runge-Kutta (RK) integration of hyperbolic initial-boundary value problems with time-dependent Dirichlet data often displays order reduction: the observed convergence order falls below the nominal order because the stage structure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Giorgio Maria Cavallazzi , Miguel Pérez Cuadrado , Alfredo Pinelli

Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods provide a means to obtain high-order accurate solutions in regions of smooth fluid flow while, with the aid of limiters, still resolving strong shocks. These and other properties make DG methods…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-09 Samuel J. Dunham , Eirik Endeve , Anthony Mezzacappa , Jesse Buffaloe , Kelly Holley-Bockelmann

A discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method suitable for large-scale astrophysical simulations on Cartesian meshes as well as arbitrary static and moving Voronoi meshes is presented. Most major astrophysical fluid dynamics codes use a finite…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Philip Mocz , Mark Vogelsberger , Debora Sijacki , Ruediger Pakmor , Lars Hernquist

This article investigates matrix-free higher-order discontinuous Galerkin discretizations of the Navier--Stokes equations for incompressible flows with variable viscosity. The viscosity field may be prescribed analytically or governed by a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Richard Schussnig , Niklas Fehn , Douglas Ramalho Queiroz Pacheco , Martin Kronbichler

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

We propose a new family of high order staggered semi-implicit discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for the simulation of natural convection problems. Assuming small temperature fluctuations, the Boussinesq approximation is valid and the flow…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-12-05 Saray Busto , Maurizio Tavelli , Walter Boscheri , Michael Dumbser

We present a high-order discontinuous Galerkin (DG) solver of the compressible Navier-Stokes equations for cloud formation processes. The scheme exploits an underlying parallelized implementation of the ADER-DG method with dynamic adaptive…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-05-18 Lukas Krenz , Leonhard Rannabauer , Michael Bader

The roots of Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods is usually attributed to Reed and Hills in a paper published in 1973 on the numerical approximation of the neutron transport equation [18]. In fact, the adventure really started with a rather…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-16 Adam Larat

We develop an entropy-stable high-order numerical method for the two-dimensional compressible Euler equations on general curvilinear meshes. The proposed approach is based on a nodal discontinuous Galerkin spectral element method (DGSEM)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Jielin Yang , Guosheng Fu

In this paper we propose a new high order accurate space-time DG finite element scheme for the solution of the linear elastic wave equations in first order velocity-stress formulation in two and three-space dimensions on staggered…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Maurizio Tavelli , Michael Dumbser

The present paper deals with the numerical solution of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations using high-order discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for discretization in space. For DG methods applied to the dual splitting projection…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-25 Niklas Fehn , Wolfgang A. Wall , Martin Kronbichler

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

The accurate numerical simulation of high Reynolds number incompressible flows is a challenging topic in computational fluid dynamics. Classical inf-sup stable methods like the Taylor-Hood element or only $L^2$-conforming discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-24 Marian Piatkowski , Peter Bastian

We present the recent development of hybridizable and embedded discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for wave propagation problems in fluids, solids, and electromagnetism. In each of these areas, we describe the methods, discuss their main…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-03 Pablo Fernandez , Alexandra Christophe , Sebastien Terrana , Ngoc-Cuong Nguyen , Jaime Peraire

The high-order numerical solution of the non-linear shallow water equations (and of hyperbolic systems in general) is susceptible to unphysical Gibbs oscillations that form in the proximity of strong gradients. The solution to this problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-18 Simone Marras , Michal A. Kopera , Emil M. Constantinescu , Jenny Suckale , Francis X. Giraldo

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

In this paper, we develop a Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for solving H(curl)-elliptic hemivariational inequalities. By selecting an appropriate numerical flux, we construct an Interior Penalty Discontinuous Galerkin (IPDG) scheme. A…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Xiajie Huang , Fei Wang , Weimin Han , Min Ling

We extend the positivity-preserving method of Zhang & Shu (2010, JCP, 229, 3091-3120) to simulate the advection of neutral particles in phase space using curvilinear coordinates. The ability to utilize these coordinates is important for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Eirik Endeve , Cory D. Hauck , Yulong Xing , Anthony Mezzacappa

This paper is concerned with developing accurate and efficient numerical methods for one-dimensional fully nonlinear second order elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs). In the paper we present a general framework for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-12-04 Xiaobing Feng , Thomas Lewis

In this paper we apply implicit two-derivative multistage time integrators to viscous conservation laws in one and two dimensions. The one dimensional solver discretizes space with the classical discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method, and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-24 Alexander Jaust , Jochen Schütz , David C. Seal