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In this paper, we develop a high order structure-preserving local discontinuous Galerkin (DG) scheme for the compressible self-gravitating Euler equations, which pose great challenges due to the presence of time-dependent gravitational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Liang Pan , Wei Chen , Jianxian Qiu , Tao Xiong

We present a novel discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for numerical simulations of the rotating thermal shallow water equations in complex geometries using curvilinear meshes, with arbitrary accuracy. We derive an entropy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-19 Kieran Ricardo , Kenneth Duru , David Lee

The methodology proposed in this paper bridges the gap between entropy stable and positivity-preserving discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for nonlinear hyperbolic problems. The entropy stability property and, optionally, preservation of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-08 Dmitri Kuzmin

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 is focused on the entropy analysis of a semi-discrete nodal discontinuous Galerkin spectral element method (DGSEM) on moving meshes for hyperbolic conservation laws. The DGSEM is constructed with a local tensor-product…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-24 Gero Schnücke , Nico Krais , Thomas Bolemann , Gregor J. Gassner

This work examines the development of an entropy conservative (for smooth solutions) or entropy stable (for discontinuous solutions) space-time discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for systems of non-linear hyperbolic conservation laws. The…

This paper presents a class of novel high-order fully-discrete entropy stable (ES) discontinuous Galerkin (DG) schemes with explicit time discretization. The proposed methodology exploits a critical observation from [4] that the cell…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Yuchang Liu , Wei Guo , Yan Jiang , Zheng Sun

We propose an entropy stable and positivity preserving discontinuous Galerkin (DG) scheme for the Euler equations with gravity, which is also well-balanced for hydrostatic equilibrium states. To achieve these properties, we utilize the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Yuchang Liu , Wei Guo , Yan Jiang , Mengping Zhang

In this paper, we develop a fully conservative, positivity-preserving, and entropy-bounded discontinuous Galerkin scheme for simulating the chemically reacting, compressible Euler equations with complex thermodynamics. The proposed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-11 Eric J. Ching , Ryan F. Johnson , Andrew D. Kercher

We consider the numerical approximation of linear damped wave systems by Galerkin approximations in space and appropriate time-stepping schemes. Based on a dissipation estimate for a modified energy, we prove exponential decay of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-30 Herbert Egger , Thomas Kugler

The second paper of this series presents two robust entropy stable shock-capturing methods for discontinuous Galerkin spectral element (DGSEM) discretizations of the compressible magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) equations. Specifically, we use…

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

Fisher and Carpenter (\textit{High-order entropy stable finite difference schemes for non-linear conservation laws: Finite domains, Journal of Computational Physics, 252:518--557, 2013}) found a remarkable equivalence of general diagonal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-23 Gregor J. Gassner , Andrew R. Winters , David A. Kopriva

We present an entropy stable nodal discontinuous Galerkin spectral element method (DGSEM) for the two-layer shallow water equations on two dimensional curvilinear meshes. We mimic the continuous entropy analysis on the semi-discrete level…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Patrick Ersing , Andrew R. Winters

We design an arbitrary high-order accurate nodal discontinuous Galerkin spectral element approximation for the nonlinear two dimensional shallow water equations with non-constant, possibly discontinuous, bathymetry on unstructured, possibly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-23 Niklas Wintermeyer , Andrew R. Winters , Gregor J. Gassner , David A. Kopriva

Moist thermodynamics is a fundamental driver of atmospheric dynamics across all scales, making accurate modeling of these processes essential for reliable weather forecasts and climate change projections. However, atmospheric models often…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-11-18 Kieran Ricardo , David Lee , Kenneth Duru

Many modern discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for conservation laws make use of summation by parts operators and flux differencing to achieve kinetic energy preservation or entropy stability. While these techniques increase the robustness…

We present a high-order space-time discretization equipped with fully-discrete entropy stability properties for general choices of volume and surface quadrature rules. The formulation uses flux reconstruction (FR) in the spatial dimension…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Carolyn M. V. Pethrick , Siva Nadarajah

In this work, we propose and investigate stable high-order collocation-type discretisations of the discontinuous Galerkin method on equidistant and scattered collocation points. We do so by incorporating the concept of discrete least…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-24 Jan Glaubitz , Philipp Oeffner

A novel approach for the stabilization of the Discontinuous Galerkin method based on the Dafermos entropy rate crition is presented. First, estimates for the maximal possible entropy dissipation rate of a weak solution are derived. Second,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-09 Simon-Christian Klein