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We develop new conservative discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for nonlinear wave problems, focusing on the generalized Korteweg-de Vries (gKdV) equation and the coupled Hirota-Satsuma KdV (HS-KdV) system. The proposed methods preserve…

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We propose a locally conservative enriched Galerkin scheme that preserves the physical bounds for an elliptic problem. To this end, we use a substantial over-penalization of the discrete solution's jumps to obtain optimal convergence. To…

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We present a novel approach for solving the shallow water equations using a discontinuous Galerkin spectral element method. The method we propose has three main features. First, it enjoys a discrete well-balanced property, in a spirit…

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In this paper, we describe a stable finite element formulation for advection-diffusion-reaction problems that allows for robust automatic adaptive strategies to be easily implemented. We consider locally vanishing, heterogeneous, and…

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A method is presented for constructing energy-conserving Galerkin approximations in the vertical coordinate of the full quasigeostrophic model with active surface buoyancy. The derivation generalizes the approach of Rocha \emph{et al.}…

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High-order methods offer superior dispersion and dissipation properties compared to low-order schemes but require robust stabilization for discontinuities. To ensure stability, local artificial viscosity is common, but often degrades…

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We investigate the properties of the high-order discontinuous Galerkin spectral element method (DGSEM) with implicit backward-Euler time stepping for the approximation of hyperbolic linear scalar conservation equation in multiple space…

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