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We propose a nonconforming finite element method for isentropic viscous gas flow in situations where convective effects may be neglected. We approximate the continuity equation by a piecewise constant discontinuous Galerkin method. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-06-26 Kenneth H. Karlsen , Trygve K. Karper

We develop and analyze a class of structure-preserving discontinuous Galerkin schemes for the nonlinear Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck model, reformulated as a hyperbolic system through a Hermite expansion in the velocity variable. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Yi Cai , Alain Blaustein , Tao Xiong , Francis Filbet

The modification of the celebrated Yee scheme from Maxwell equations to magnetohydrodynamics is often referred to as the constrained transport approach. Constrained transport can be viewed as a sort of predictor-corrector method for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-17 James A. Rossmanith

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

In the spirit of making high-order discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods more competitive, researchers have developed the hybridized DG methods, a class of discontinuous Galerkin methods that generalizes the Hybridizable DG (HDG), the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-16 Pablo Fernandez , Ngoc-Cuong Nguyen , Jaime Peraire

In this paper, we present and study discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for one-dimensional multi-symplectic Hamiltonian partial differential equations. We particularly focus on semi-discrete schemes with spatial discretization only, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Zheng Sun , Yulong Xing

We present a domain decomposition formulation based on hybridization which is inspired by hybridized discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) methods, that enhance mixed domain decomposition methods by incorporating stabilization terms. Unlike…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Kersten Schmidt , Timon Seibel , Sebastian Schöps

We extend the entropy stable high order nodal discontinuous Galerkin spectral element approximation for the non-linear two dimensional shallow water equations presented by Wintermeyer et al. [N. Wintermeyer, A. R. Winters, G. J. Gassner,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-26 Niklas Wintermeyer , Andrew R. Winters , Gregor J. Gassner , Timothy Warburton

We consider spectral mixed discontinuous Galerkin finite element discretizations of the Lam\'e system of linear elasticity in polyhedral domains in $\mathbb{R}^3$. In order to resolve possible corner, edge, and corner-edge singularities,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-14 Thomas P. Wihler , Marcel Wirz

Unstructured grid ocean models are advantageous for simulating the coastal ocean and river-estuary-plume systems. However, unstructured grid models tend to be diffusive and/or computationally expensive which limits their applicability to…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 Tuomas Kärnä , Stephan C. Kramer , Lawrence Mitchell , David A. Ham , Matthew D. Piggott , António M. Baptista

We present a novel class of locally conservative, entropy stable and well-balanced discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for the nonlinear shallow water equation with a non-flat bottom topography. The major novelty of our work is the use of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-01 Guosheng Fu

We design consistent discontinuous Galerkin finite element schemes for the approximation of a quasi-incompressible two phase flow model of Allen-Cahn/Cahn-Hilliard/Navier-Stokes-Korteweg type which allows for phase transitions. We show that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-13 Jan Giesselmann , Tristan Pryer

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

We present a discontinuous finite element method for the shallow water equations which exploits high-resolution realistic bathymetry data without any regularity assumption, also in the case of high-order discretizations. We prove a number…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Luca Arpaia , Giuseppe Orlando , Christian Ferrarin , Luca Bonaventura

In this paper, we present convergence analysis of high-order finite element based methods, in particular, we focus on a discontinuous Galerkin scheme using summation-by-parts operators. To this end, it is crucial that structure preserving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-07 Mária Lukácová-Medvidová , Philipp Öffner

We build a multi-element variant of the smoothness increasing accuracy conserving (SIAC) shock capturing technique proposed for single element spectral methods by Wissink et al. (B.W. Wissink, G.B. Jacobs, J.K. Ryan, W.S. Don, and E.T.A.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-12 Marvin Bohm , Sven Schermeng , Andrew R. Winters , Gregor J. Gassner , Gustaaf B. Jacobs

In this paper, we consider the numerical approximation for a diffuse interface model of the two-phase incompressible inductionless magnetohydrodynamics problem. This model consists of Cahn-Hilliard equations, Navier-Stokes equations and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-01 Xiaorong Wang , Xiaodi Zhang

In this paper, we propose a class of non-oscillatory, entropy-stable discontinuous Galerkin (NOES-DG) schemes for solving hyperbolic conservation laws. By incorporating a specific form of artificial viscosity, our new scheme directly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Yuchang Liu , Wei Guo , Yan Jiang , Mengping Zhang

We present a novel asymptotic-preserving semi-implicit finite element method for weakly compressible and incompressible flows based on compatible finite element spaces. The momentum is sought in an $H(\mathrm{div})$-conforming space,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Enrico Zampa , Michael Dumbser

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