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High-order methods for conservation laws can be highly efficient if their stability is ensured. A suitable means mimicking estimates of the continuous level is provided by summation-by-parts (SBP) operators and the weak enforcement of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Hendrik Ranocha

In this paper, we present a block-oriented scheme for adaptive mesh refinement based on summation-by-parts (SBP) finite difference methods and simultaneous-approximation-term (SAT) interface treatment. Since the order of accuracy at SBP-SAT…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-05 Anna Nissen , Katharina Kormann , Magnus Grandin , Kristoffer Virta

High order entropy stable discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for nonlinear conservation laws satisfy an inherent discrete entropy inequality. The construction of such schemes has relied on the use of carefully chosen nodal points or volume…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-06 Jesse Chan

The paper presents high-order accurate, energy-, and entropy-stable discretizations constructed from summation-by-parts (SBP) operators. Notably, the discretizations assemble global SBP operators and use continuous solutions, unlike…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-13 Jason E. Hicken

Many entropy-conservative and entropy-stable (summarized as entropy-preserving) methods for hyperbolic conservation laws rely on Tadmor's theory for two-point entropy-preserving numerical fluxes and its higher-order extension via flux…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Marco Artiano , Hendrik Ranocha

Context: Calculating stellar pulsations requires a sufficient accuracy to match the quality of the observations. Many current pulsation codes apply a second order finite-difference scheme, combined with Richardson extrapolation to reach…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 D. R. Reese

We introduce a robust first order accurate meshfree method to numerically solve time-dependent nonlinear conservation laws. The main contribution of this work is the meshfree construction of first order consistent summation by parts…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-07 Samuel Kwan , Jesse Chan

The construction of high order entropy stable collocation schemes on quadrilateral and hexahedral elements has relied on the use of Gauss-Legendre-Lobatto collocation points and their equivalence with summation-by-parts (SBP) finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-06 Jesse Chan , David C. Del Rey Fernandez , Mark H. Carpenter

The high-order accurate continuous Galerkin finite element method offers attractive computational efficiency for computational fluid dynamics. A challenge is however spurious oscillations which result for convection dominated flows over…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-10 Arnaud G. Malan , Jan Nordstrom

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

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

In this work we explore the fidelity of numerical approximations to the analytic spectra of hyperbolic partial differential equation systems with variable coefficients. We are particularly interested in the ability of discrete methods to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Brittany A. Erickson

We propose a graph-based sweep algorithm for solving the steady state, mono-energetic discrete ordinates on meshes of high-order curved mesh elements. Our spatial discretization consists of arbitrarily high-order discontinuous Galerkin…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-11 T. S. Haut , P. G. Maginot , V. Z. Tomov , B. S. Southworth , T. A. Brunner , T. S. Bailey

Higher-order numerical methods are used to find accurate numerical solutions to hyperbolic partial differential equations and equations of transport type. Limiting is required to either converge to the correct type of solution or to adhere…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-10 James Woodfield

We analyze the stability and functional superconvergence of discretizations of diffusion problems with the narrow-stencil second-derivative generalized summation-by-parts (SBP) operators coupled with simultaneous approximation terms (SATs).…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Zelalem Arega Worku , David W. Zingg

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

In this paper, we show that diagonal-norm summation by parts (SBP) discretizations of general non-conservative systems of hyperbolic balance laws can be rewritten as a finite-volume-type formula, also known as flux-differencing formula, if…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-28 Andrés M Rueda-Ramírez , Gregor J Gassner

We consider the numerical simulation of the acoustic wave equations arising from seismic applications, for which staggered grid finite difference methods are popular choices due to their simplicity and efficiency. We relax the uniform grid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-20 Longfei Gao , David C. Del Rey Fernandez , Mark Carpenter , David Keyes

This paper presents a novel p-adaptive, high-order mesh-free framework for the accurate and efficient simulation of fluid flows in complex geometries. High-order differential operators are constructed locally for arbitrary node…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Ruofeng Feng , Jack R. C. King , Steven J. Lind

We present a novel approach of discretizing variable coefficient diffusion operators in the context of meshfree generalized finite difference methods. Our ansatz uses properties of derived operators and combines the discrete Laplace…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Heinrich Kraus , Jörg Kuhnert , Pratik Suchde