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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…

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One- and multi-dimensional stochastic Maxwell equations with additive noise are considered in this paper. It is known that such system can be written in the multi-symplectic structure, and the stochastic energy increases linearly in time.…

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This article considers a new discretization scheme for conservation laws. The discretization setting is based on a discontinuous Galerkin scheme in combination with an approximation space that contains high-order polynomial modes as well as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-14 Per-Olof Persson , Benjamin Stamm

We present a new class of structure-preserving semi-discrete continuous-discontinuous Galerkin (CG-DG) finite element schemes for linear and nonlinear hyperbolic systems of partial differential equations on unstructured simplex meshes that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Rémi Abgrall , Michael Dumbser , Pierre-Henri Maire , Enrico Zampa

We present a well-balanced nodal discontinuous Galerkin (DG) scheme for compressible Euler equations with gravity. The DG scheme makes use of discontinuous Lagrange basis functions supported at Gauss-Lobatto-Legendre (GLL) nodes together…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-12-13 Praveen Chandrashekar , Markus Zenk

This paper is concerned with the development of weak Galerkin (WG) finite element method for optimal control problems governed by second order elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). It is advantageous to use discontinuous finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Chunmei Wang , Junping Wang , Shangyou Zhang

In this work, the authors introduce a generalized weak Galerkin (gWG) finite element method for the time-dependent Oseen equation. The generalized weak Galerkin method is based on a new framework for approximating the gradient operator.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Wenya Qi , Padmanabhan Seshaiyer , Junping Wang

Preserving the admissible set of the ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations is important not only for producing physically meaningful numerical solutions, but more importantly for achieving robust computations. In this paper, we develop…

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In this paper we investigate a priori error estimates for the space-time Galerkin finite element discretization of a simplified semilinear gradient enhanced damage model. The model equations are of a special structure as the state equation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-14 Marita Holtmannspötter , Arnd Rösch

This work proposes a method for model reduction of finite-volume models that guarantees the resulting reduced-order model is conservative, thereby preserving the structure intrinsic to finite-volume discretizations. The proposed…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Kevin Carlberg , Youngsoo Choi , Syuzanna Sargsyan

We develop efficient hierarchical preconditioners for optimal control problems governed by partial differential equations with uncertain coefficients. Adopting a discretize-then-optimize framework that integrates finite element…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Zhendong Li , Akwum Onwunta , Bedřich Sousedík

We present an efficient nodal discontinuous Galerkin method for approximating nearly incompressible flows using the Boltzmann equations. The equations are discretized with Hermite polynomials in velocity space yielding a first order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-22 A. Karakus , N. Chalmers , J. S. Hesthaven , T. Warburton

A simplified primal-dual weak Galerkin (S-PDWG) finite element method is designed for the Fokker-Planck type equation with non-smooth diffusion tensor and drift vector. The discrete system resulting from S-PDWG method has significantly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-29 Dan Li , Chunmei Wang

This work is related to developing entropy-stable positivity-preserving Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods as a computational scheme for Boltzmann-Poisson systems modeling the probability density of collisional electronic transport along…

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Multi-level preconditioners for Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretizations are widely used to solve elliptic equations, and a main ingredient of such solvers is the interpolation operator to transfer information from the coarse to the fine…

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We propose a new family of high order staggered semi-implicit discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for the simulation of natural convection problems. Assuming small temperature fluctuations, the Boussinesq approximation is valid and the flow…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-12-05 Saray Busto , Maurizio Tavelli , Walter Boscheri , Michael Dumbser

We study the high-order local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) method for the $p$-Laplace equation. We reformulate our spatial discretization as an equivalent convex minimization problem and use a preconditioned gradient descent method as the…

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In this paper two new families of arbitrary high order accurate spectral DG finite element methods are derived on staggered Cartesian grids for the solution of the inc.NS equations in two and three space dimensions. Pressure and velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-06 Francesco Fambri , Michael Dumbser

We present a novel discontinuous Galerkin algorithm for the solution of a class of Fokker-Planck collision operators. These operators arise in many fields of physics, and our particular application is for kinetic plasma simulations. In…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Ammar Hakim , M. Francisquez , J. Juno , Greg W. Hammett