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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

In this work, we propose an accurate, robust, and stable discretization of the gamma-based compressible multicomponent model by Shyue [J. Comput. Phys., 142 (1998), 208-242] where each component follows a stiffened gas equation of state…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Rémi Abgrall , Pratik Rai , Florent Renac

We propose a high order discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for solving nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations with a gradient flow structure. For some of these models it is known that the transient solutions converge to steady-states when time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-12 Hailiang Liu , Zhongming Wang

We construct entropy conservative and entropy stable high order accurate discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretizations for time-dependent nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws on curvilinear meshes. The resulting schemes preserve a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-14 Jesse Chan , Lucas C. Wilcox

In this work we propose a high-order discretization of the Baer-Nunziato two-phase flow model (Baer and Nunziato, Int. J. Multiphase Flow, 12 (1986), pp. 861-889) with closures for interface velocity and pressure adapted to the treatment of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Frédéric Coquel , Claude Marmignon , Pratik Rai , Florent Renac

We prove that the most common filtering procedure for nodal discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods is stable. The proof exploits that the DG approximation is constructed from polynomial basis functions and that integrals are approximated with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Jan Nordström , Andrew R. Winters

We introduce discontinuous spectral-element methods of arbitrary order that are well balanced, conservative of mass, and conservative or dissipative of total energy (i.e., a mathematical entropy function) for a covariant flux formulation of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Tristan Montoya , Andrés M. Rueda-Ramírez , Gregor J. Gassner

Due to added numerical stabilization (diffusion), the stationary states of numerical methods for hyperbolic problems need not be consistent discretizations of those of the PDEs. A closely related phenomenon is the lack of consistency of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Wasilij Barsukow

Discontinuous Galerkin methods are developed for solving the Vlasov-Maxwell system, methods that are designed to be systematically as accurate as one wants with provable conservation of mass and possibly total energy. Such properties in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-24 Yingda Cheng , Irene M. Gamba , Fengyan Li , Philip J. Morrison

Finite volume methods are popular tools for solving time-dependent partial differential equations, especially hyperbolic conservation laws. Over the past 40 years a popular way of enlarging their robustness was the enforcement of global or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-20 Simon-Christian Klein , Thomas Sonar

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

Discretizing a solution in the Fourier domain rather than the time domain presents a significant advantage in solving transport problems that vary smoothly and periodically in time, such as cardiorespiratory flows. The finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-21 Mahdi Esmaily , Dongjie Jia

We develop an entropy stable two-phase incompressible Navier--Stokes/Cahn--Hilliard discontinuous Galerkin (DG) flow solver method. The model poses the Cahn-Hilliard equation as the phase field method, a skew-symmetric form of the momentum…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Juan Manzanero , Gonzalo Rubio , David A. Kopriva , Esteban Ferrer , Eusebio Valero

We present a detailed description and verification of a discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (DG) for the multi-component chemically reacting compressible Navier-Stokes equations that retains the desirable properties of DG, namely…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Ryan F. Johnson , Andrew D. Kercher

Entropy stable methods have become increasingly popular in the field of computational fluid dynamics. They often work by satisfying some form of a discrete entropy inequality: a discrete form of the 2nd law of thermodynamics. Schemes which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Brian Christner , Jesse Chan

In this paper, we present an entropy-stable Gauss collocation discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method on 3D curvilinear meshes for the GLM-MHD equations: the single-fluid magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) equations with a generalized Lagrange…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Andrés M Rueda-Ramírez , Florian J Hindenlang , Jesse Chan , Gregor J Gassner

In the research community, there exists the strong belief that a continuous Galerkin scheme is notoriously unstable and additional stabilization terms have to be added to guarantee stability. In the first part of the series [6], the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Rémi Abgrall , Jan Nordström , Philipp Öffner , Svetlana Tokareva

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

In this paper, we present a numerical scheme designed for coupled systems of variable-topography shallow water flow and solute transport. By integrating a variable-density system with an expression for relative density of mixtures, a novel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Jun She , Haiyun Dong , Maojun Li , Jianjun Ma

Discontinuous Galerkin methods of higher order are applied as temporal discretizations for the transient Navier--Stokes equations. The spatial discretization based on inf-sup stable pairs of finite element spaces is stabilised using a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Naveed Ahmed , Gunar Matthies