<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This article is devoted to the discretization of source terms and boundary conditions using discontinuous Galerkin schemes with an arbitrary high order of accuracy in space and time for the solution of hyperbolic conservation laws on unstructured triangular meshes. The building block of the method is a particular numerical flux function at the element interfaces based on the solution of Generalized Riemann Problems (GRPs) with piecewise polynomial initial data. The solution of the generalized Riemann problem, originally introduced by Toro and Titarev in a finite volume context, provides simultaneously a numerical flux function as well as a time integration method. The resulting scheme is extremely local since it integrates the PDE from one time step to the successive one in a single step using only information from the direct side neighbors. Since source terms are directly incorporated into the numerical flux via the solution of the GRP, our very high order accurate method is also able to maintain very well smooth steady-state solutions of PDEs with source terms, similar to the so-called well-balanced schemes which are usually specially designed for this purpose. Boundary conditions are imposed solving inverse generalized Riemann problems. Furthermore, we show numerical evidence proving that by using very high order schemes together with high order polynomial representations of curved boundaries, high quality solutions can be obtained on very coarse meshes.</p></abstract>

This article is devoted to the discretization of source terms and boundary conditions using discontinuous Galerkin schemes with an arbitrary high order of accuracy in space and time for the solution of hyperbolic conservation laws on unstructured triangular meshes. The building block of the method is a particular numerical flux function at the element interfaces based on the solution of Generalized Riemann Problems (GRPs) with piecewise polynomial initial data. The solution of the generalized Riemann problem, originally introduced by Toro and Titarev in a finite volume context, provides simultaneously a numerical flux function as well as a time integration method. The resulting scheme is extremely local since it integrates the PDE from one time step to the successive one in a single step using only information from the direct side neighbors. Since source terms are directly incorporated into the numerical flux via the solution of the GRP, our very high order accurate method is also able to maintain very well smooth steady-state solutions of PDEs with source terms, similar to the so-called well-balanced schemes which are usually specially designed for this purpose. Boundary conditions are imposed solving inverse generalized Riemann problems. Furthermore, we show numerical evidence proving that by using very high order schemes together with high order polynomial representations of curved boundaries, high quality solutions can be obtained on very coarse meshes.

On Source Terms and Boundary Conditions Using Arbitrary High Order Discontinuous Galerkin Schemes

Institut für Aerodynamik und Gasdynamik, Pfaffenwaldring 21, D-70550 Stuttgart, Germany

International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

This article is devoted to the discretization of source terms and boundary conditions using discontinuous Galerkin schemes with an arbitrary high order of...

On Source Terms and Boundary Conditions Using Arbitrary High Order Discontinuous Galerkin Schemes

Published Online: Oct 11, 2007

Page range: 297 - 310

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10006-007-0024-1

Keywords
discontinuous Galerkin schemes, ADER approach, source terms, boundary conditions, unstructured meshes

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On Source Terms and Boundary Conditions Using Arbitrary High Order Discontinuous Galerkin Schemes

Published Online: Oct 11, 2007

Page range: 297 - 310

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10006-007-0024-1

Keywordsdiscontinuous Galerkin schemes, ADER approach, source terms, boundary conditions, unstructured meshes

This content is open access.

Keywords
discontinuous Galerkin schemes, ADER approach, source terms, boundary conditions, unstructured meshes