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High-order methods are well-suited for the numerical simulation of complex compressible turbulent flows, but require additional stabilization techniques to capture instabilities arising from the underlying non-linear hyperbolic equations.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-02 Anna Schwarz , Daniel Kempf , Jens Keim , Patrick Kopper , Christian Rohde , Andrea Beck

In this paper, we develop a class of high order conservative semi-Lagrangian (SL) discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for solving multi-dimensional linear transport equations. The methods rely on a characteristic Galerkin weak formulation,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-25 Xiaofeng Cai , Wei Guo , Jing-Mei Qiu

High order entropy stable schemes provide improved robustness for computational simulations of fluid flows. However, additional stabilization and positivity preserving limiting can still be required for variable-density flows with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-22 Jesse Chan , Hendrik Ranocha , Andres Rueda-Ramirez , Gregor Gassner , Tim Warburton

The study performs large-eddy simulations of supersonic free jet flows using the Discontinuous Galerkin Spectral Element Method (DGSEM). The main objective of the present work is to assess the resolution requirements for adequate simulation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-22 Diego F. Abreu , João Luiz F. Azevedo , Carlos Junqueira-Junior

Neural networks offer highly expressive turbulence closures, yet their complexity obscures the physical mechanisms they aim to model, and their computational cost can limit their tractability. To address these limitations, we introduce a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-29 Samantha Friess , Aviral Prakash , John A. Evans

Direct numerical simulations (DNS) are one of the main ab initio tools to study turbulent flows. However, due to their considerable computational cost, DNS are primarily restricted to canonical flows at moderate Reynolds numbers, in which…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-17 Arnab Moitro , Sai Sandeep Dammati , Alexei Y. Poludnenko

The objective of this work is to investigate the utility and effectiveness of the high-order scheme for simulating unsteady turbulent flows. To achieve it, the studies were conducted from two perspectives: (i) the ability of different…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-30 Peng Jiang , Yichen Huang , Yong Cao , Shijun Liao , Bin Xie

High-order accurate discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods have emerged as powerful tools for solving partial differential equations such as the compressible Navier-Stokes equations due to their excellent dispersion-dissipation properties and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Patrick Kopper , Anna Schwarz , Jens Keim , Andrea Beck

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

This work presents and compares efficient implementations of high-order discontinuous Galerkin methods: a modal matrix-free discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method, a hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method, and a primal formulation of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-12-14 Matteo Franciolini , Krzysztof Fidkowski , Andrea Crivellini

Unstructured grid ocean models are advantageous for simulating the coastal ocean and river-estuary-plume systems. However, unstructured grid models tend to be diffusive and/or computationally expensive which limits their applicability to…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 Tuomas Kärnä , Stephan C. Kramer , Lawrence Mitchell , David A. Ham , Matthew D. Piggott , António M. Baptista

Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods are promising high order discretizations for unsteady compressible flows. Here, we focus on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP). These flows are characterized by a fine resolution in $z$-direction and low…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Philipp Birken , Andreas Dedner , Robert Klöfkorn

This paper presents a class of novel high-order fully-discrete entropy stable (ES) discontinuous Galerkin (DG) schemes with explicit time discretization. The proposed methodology exploits a critical observation from [4] that the cell…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Yuchang Liu , Wei Guo , Yan Jiang , Zheng Sun

We propose a family of high-order local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) methods, built on a parametric representation and coupled with a semi-implicit backward Euler time discretization, for isotropic and anisotropic curve-shortening flows.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Xiuhui Guo , Wei Jiang , Chunmei Su

In this work, a discontinuous Galerkin scheme is employed to perform LES simulations of supersonic jet flows. A total of four simulations are performed with different meshes and order of accuracy. The number of degrees of freedom from the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-06 D. F. Abreu , C. Junqueira-Junior , E. T. V. Dauricio , J. L. F. Azevedo

In this review, the methodology of large eddy simulations (LES) is introduced and applications in astrophysics are discussed. As theoretical framework, the scale decomposition of the dynamical equations for compressible neutral fluids by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-09 Wolfram Schmidt-Brückner

The effect of grid resolution on large eddy simulation (LES) of wall-bounded turbulent flow is investigated. A channel flow simulation campaign involving systematic variation of the streamwise ($\Delta x$) and spanwise ($\Delta z$) grid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-05-23 Saleh Rezaeiravesh , Mattias Liefvendahl

Matrix-free geometric multigrid solvers for elliptic PDEs that have been discretised with Higher-order Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods are ideally suited to exploit state-of-the-art computer architectures. Higher polynomial degrees…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Sean Baccas , Alexander A. Belozerov , Eike H. Müller , Tobias Weinzierl

In this paper, we discuss the incorporation of dynamic subgrid scale (SGS) models in the lattice-Boltzmann method (LBM) for large-eddy simulation (LES) of turbulent flows. The use of a dynamic procedure, which involves sampling or…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Kannan N. Premnath , Martin J. Pattison , Sanjoy Banerjee

Large eddy simulation (LES) has been increasingly used to tackle vortex-dominated turbulent flows. In LES, the quality of the simulation results hinges upon the quality of the numerical discretizations in both space and time. It is in this…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-07-19 Mohammad Alhawwary , Z. J. Wang