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We develop a numerical method for solving the acoustic wave equation in covariant form on staggered curvilinear grids in an energy conserving manner. The use of a covariant basis decomposition leads to a rotationally invariant scheme that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Ossian O'Reilly , N. Anders Petersson

We examine stability of summation by parts (SBP) numerical schemes that use hyperboloidal slices to include future null infinity in the computational domain. This inclusion serves to mitigate outer boundary effects and, in the future, will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-28 Shalabh Gautam , Alex Vañó-Viñuales , David Hilditch , Sukanta Bose

The main result in this paper is a provably entropy stable shock capturing approach for the high order entropy stable DGSEM based on a hybrid blending with a subcell low order variant. Since it is possible to rewrite a high order SBP…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-11-05 Sebastian Hennemann , Andrés M. Rueda-Ramírez , Florian J. Hindenlang , Gregor J. Gassner

A generalised analytical notion of summation-by-parts (SBP) methods is proposed, extending the concept of SBP operators in the correction procedure via reconstruction (CPR), a framework of high-order methods for conservation laws. For the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-26 Hendrik Ranocha , Philipp Öffner , Thomas Sonar

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…

Summation-by-parts (SBP) finite-difference discretizations share many attractive properties with Galerkin finite-element methods (FEMs), including time stability and superconvergent functionals; however, unlike FEMs, SBP operators are not…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-07 Jason E. Hicken , David C. Del Rey Fernández , David W. Zingg

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…

The entropy conservative/stable algorithm of Friedrich~\etal (2018) for hyperbolic conservation laws on nonconforming p-refined/coarsened Cartesian grids, is extended to curvilinear grids for the compressible Euler equations. The primary…

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

High-order accurate summation-by-parts (SBP) finite difference (FD) methods constitute efficient numerical methods for simulating large-scale hyperbolic wave propagation problems. Traditional SBP FD operators that approximate first-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Kenneth Duru , Frederick Fung , Christopher Williams

A recent study by Gassner et al. [J. Sci. Comput. 90:79 (2022)] demonstrates that local energy stability--that is, ensuring the asymptotic numerical growth rate does not exceed the continuous growth rate--is crucial for achieving accurate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Dougal Stewart , Kenneth Duru

Overset grid methods handle complex geometries by overlapping simpler, geometry-fitted grids to cover the original, more complex domain. However, ensuring their stability -- particularly at high orders -- remains a practical and theoretical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Jan Glaubitz , Joshua Lampert , Andrew R. Winters , Jan Nordström

Multidimensional diagonal-norm summation-by-parts (SBP) operators with collocated volume and facet nodes, known as diagonal-$ \mathsf{E} $ operators, are attractive for entropy-stable discretizations from an efficiency standpoint. However,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Zelalem Arega Worku , Jason E. Hicken , David W. Zingg

In this work, we consider the discretization of nonlinear hyperbolic systems in nonconservative form with the high-order discontinuous Galerkin spectral element method (DGSEM) based on collocation of quadrature and interpolation points…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Florent Renac

We employ the summation-by-parts (SBP) framework to extend the recent domain-of-dependence (DoD) stabilization for cut cells to linear kinetic models in diffusion scaling. Numerical methods for these models are challenged by increased…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Louis Petri , Sigrun Ortleb , Gunnar Birke , Christian Engwer , Hendrik Ranocha

By employing non-equispaced grid points near boundaries, boundary-optimized upwind finite-difference operators of orders up to nine are developed. The boundary closures are constructed within a diagonal-norm summation-by-parts (SBP)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Ken Mattsson , David Niemelä , Andrew R. Winters

Summation-by-parts (SBP) operators are finite-difference operators that mimic integration by parts. This property can be useful in constructing energy-stable discretizations of partial differential vequations. SBP operators are defined by a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Jason E. Hicken , David W. Zingg

For the first time, a general two-parameter family of entropy conservative numerical fluxes for the shallow water equations is developed and investigated. These are adapted to a varying bottom topography in a well-balanced way, i.e.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-24 Hendrik Ranocha

This paper is concerned with the accurate, conservative, and stable imposition of boundary conditions and inter-element coupling for multi-dimensional summation-by-parts (SBP) finite-difference operators. More precisely, the focus is on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-09 David C. Del Rey Fernández , Jason E. Hicken , David W. Zingg

High-order difference operators with the summation-by-parts (SBP) property can be used to build stable discretizations of hyperbolic conservation laws; however, most high-order SBP operators require a conforming, high-order mesh for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-29 Jason Hicken , Ge Yan , Sharanjeet Kaur