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We propose a new discretization method for the Stokes equations. The method is an improved version of the method recently presented in [C. Lehrenfeld, J. Sch\"oberl, Comp. Meth. Appl. Mech. Eng., 361 (2016)] which is based on an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-29 Philip L. Lederer , Christoph Lehrenfeld , Joachim Schöberl

In this work, we develop a novel numerical scheme to solve the classical Keller--Segel (KS) model which simultaneously preserves its intrinsic mathematical structure and achieves optimal accuracy. The model is reformulated into a gradient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-23 X. Yin , X. Lan , Y. Qin

This paper develops a discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element differential calculus theory for approximating weak derivatives of Sobolev functions and piecewise Sobolev functions. By introducing numerical one-sided derivatives as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-06 Xiaobing Feng , Thomas Lewis , Michael Neilan

The proximal Galerkin finite element method is a high-order, low-iteration complexity, nonlinear numerical method that preserves the geometric and algebraic structure of point-wise bound constraints in infinite-dimensional function spaces.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-18 Brendan Keith , Thomas M. Surowiec

We develop and analyze a new hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method for solving third-order Korteweg-de Vries type equations. The approximate solutions are defined by a discrete version of a characterization of the exact solution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Bo Dong

We develop a hybrid spatial discretization for the wave equation in second order form, based on high-order accurate finite difference methods and discontinuous Galerkin methods. The hybridization combines computational efficiency of finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-26 Siyang Wang , Gunilla Kreiss

Many problems of theoretical and practical interest involve finding a convex or concave function. For instance, optimization problems such as finding the projection on the convex functions in $H^k(\Omega)$, or some problems in economics. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-04-11 Néstor Aguilera , Pedro Morin

The first super-convergent hybridisable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method for linear elastic problems capable of using the same degree of approximation for both the primal and mixed variables is presented. The key feature of the method is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-16 Ruben Sevilla , Matteo Giacomini , Alexandros Karkoulias , Antonio Huerta

A framework for performing dynamic mesh adaptation with the discontinuous Galerkin method (DGM) is presented. Adaptations include modifications of the local mesh step size (h-adaptation) and the local degree of the approximating polynomials…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-01-29 Sascha M. Schnepp , Thomas Weiland

The Galerkin difference (GD) basis is a set of continuous, piecewise polynomials defined using a finite difference like grid of degrees of freedom. The one dimensional GD basis functions are naturally extended to multiple dimensions using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-03 Jeremy E. Kozdon , Lucas C. Wilcox , Thomas Hagstrom , Jeffrey W. Banks

Certain energy-conservative Galerkin discretizations for nonlinear dispersive wave equations have revealed an unusual convergence behavior: optimal convergence is attained when continuous Lagrange finite element spaces of odd polynomial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Dimitrios Antonopoulos , Dimitrios Mitsotakis

We design a novel provably stable discontinuous Galerkin spectral element (DGSEM) approximation to solve systems of conservation laws on moving domains. To incorporate the motion of the domain, we use an arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-02 David A. Kopriva , Andrew R. Winters , Marvin Bohm , Gregor J. Gassner

The accurate numerical simulation of turbulent incompressible flows is a challenging topic in computational fluid dynamics. For discretisation methods to be robust in the under-resolved regime, mass conservation as well as energy stability…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Niklas Fehn , Martin Kronbichler , Christoph Lehrenfeld , Gert Lube , Philipp W. Schroeder

We introduce an immersed high-order discontinuous Galerkin method for solving the compressible Navier-Stokes equations on non-boundary-fitted meshes. The flow equations are discretised with a mixed discontinuous Galerkin formulation and are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Hong Xiao , Eky Febrianto , Qiaoling Zhang , Fehmi Cirak

This paper focuses on the numerical approximation of the linearized shallow water equations using hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) methods, leveraging the Hamiltonian structure of the evolution system. First, we propose an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-04 C. Núñez , M. A. Sánchez

This paper is concerned with developing accurate and efficient discontinuous Galerkin methods for fully nonlinear second order elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) in the case of one spatial dimension. The primary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-12-05 Xiaobing Feng , Thomas Lewis

The Swift-Hohenberg equation as a central nonlinear model in modern physics has a gradient flow structure. Here we introduce fully discrete discontinuous Galerkin (DG) schemes for a class of fourth order gradient flow problems, including…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-02 Hailiang Liu , Peimeng Yin

In this paper, by introducing a reconstruction operator based on the Legendre moments, we construct a reduced discontinuous Galerkin (RDG) space that could achieve the same approximation accuracy but using fewer degrees of freedom (DoFs)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Shijin Hou , Yinhua Xia

We consider the discretization and subsequent model reduction of a system of partial differential-algebraic equations describing the propagation of pressure waves in a pipeline network. Important properties like conservation of mass,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-12 Herbert Egger , Thomas Kugler , Björn Liljegren-Sailer , Nicole Marheineke , Volker Mehrmann

We develop local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) methods for conservation laws with heterogeneous stochastic fluxes, where the Stratonovich-driven transport terms may be linear or nonlinear. Such equations arise, for example, in simplified…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Thomas Christiansen , Kenneth H. Karlsen