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High-order methods offer superior dispersion and dissipation properties compared to low-order schemes but require robust stabilization for discontinuities. To ensure stability, local artificial viscosity is common, but often degrades…

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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…

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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…

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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

We construct entropy conservative and entropy stable high order accurate discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretizations for time-dependent nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws on curvilinear meshes. The resulting schemes preserve a…

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We present a static-condensation method for time-implicit discretizations of the Discontinuous Galerkin Spectral Element Method on Gauss-Lobatto points (GL-DGSEM). We show that, when solving the compressible Navier-Stokes equations, it is…

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Numerically solving magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations faces many challenges: avoiding divergence error, maintaining positivity, and satisfying entropy conditions. Among discontinuous Galerkin (DG) schemes, there has been a modal version…

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We present a discontinuous Galerkin-finite-difference hybrid scheme that allows high-order shock capturing with the discontinuous Galerkin method for general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics. The hybrid method is conceptually quite simple.…

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In this work we propose a high-order discretization of the Baer-Nunziato two-phase flow model (Baer and Nunziato, Int. J. Multiphase Flow, 12 (1986), pp. 861-889) with closures for interface velocity and pressure adapted to the treatment of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Frédéric Coquel , Claude Marmignon , Pratik Rai , Florent Renac

We extend the monolithic convex limiting (MCL) methodology to nodal discontinuous Galerkin spectral element methods (DGSEM). The use of Legendre-Gauss-Lobatto (LGL) quadrature endows collocated DGSEM space discretizations of nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-02 Andrés M Rueda-Ramírez , Benjamin Bolm , Dmitri Kuzmin , Gregor J Gassner

High order schemes are known to be unstable in the presence of shock discontinuities or under-resolved solution features, and have traditionally required additional filtering, limiting, or artificial viscosity to avoid solution blow up.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-16 Xinhui Wu , Nathaniel Trask , Jesse Chan

Entropy stable discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods improve the robustness of high order DG simulations of nonlinear conservation laws. These methods yield a semi-discrete entropy inequality, and rely on an algebraic flux differencing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Jesse Chan

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…

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This work concerns the analysis of the discontinuous Galerkin spectral element method (DGSEM) with implicit time stepping for the numerical approximation of nonlinear scalar conservation laws in multiple space dimensions. We consider either…

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Recently, it was discovered that the entropy-conserving/dissipative high-order split-form discontinuous Galerkin discretizations have robustness issues when trying to solve the simple density wave propagation example for the compressible…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-03 Hendrik Ranocha , Gregor J Gassner

High-order entropy-stable discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for nonlinear conservation laws reproduce a discrete entropy inequality by combining entropy conservative finite volume fluxes with summation-by-parts (SBP) discretization…

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This work presents an entropy stable discontinuous Galerkin (DG) spectral element approximation for systems of non-linear conservation laws with general geometric (h) and polynomial order (p) non-conforming rectangular meshes. The crux of…

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