Questions tagged [discontinuous-galerkin]
Questions about analysis, implementation or application of Galerkin methods for partial differential equations using piecewise functions that are not globally continuous (and hence require surface terms on element boundaries in addition to the usual volume terms occurring in finite element methods).
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How to Impose nonhomogeneous Neumann Boundary Condition in the DG Formulation
Consider the following partial differential equation
\begin{align}
\frac{\partial u}{\partial t}+\frac{\partial f}{\partial x} &= g(x,t), \ \ x\in \Omega = [x_{L},x_{R}] \\
u(x,0) &= u_{0}(x) ...
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DG method for solving Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equation with Dirichlet Boundary Conditions
Consider the following partial differential equation
\begin{align}
\frac{\partial u}{\partial t}+\frac{\partial f}{\partial x} &= g(x,t), \ \ x\in \Omega = [x_{L},x_{R}] \\
u(x,0) &= u_{0}(x) ...
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Is it possible to use a fixed point iteration for solving this nonlinear system?
Consider the following differential equation
\begin{align}
\frac{\partial f(u)}{\partial x} &= g(x), \ \ x\in [x_{L},x_{R}] \label{Eq2.2} \\
u(x_{L}) &= g_{1}
\end{align}
where $f(u)$ is a ...
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Analysis of nonlinear finite element methods
I have been doing a lot of reading on the development of finite element methods and their analysis using, e.g., functional analysis. I am clear on the formulation of the weak form of a PDE and ...
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Typo in a-priori error estimate in a Discontinuous Galerkin paper
I'm looking at this famous paper which is available in the link below:
Franco Brezzi, LD Marini, Endre Süli, Discontinuous Galerkin methods for first-order hyperbolic problems, Mathematical Models ...
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Discontinuous Galerkin order of convergence on arbirary refined mesh: step-12 deal.ii tutorial
I'm learning DG methods and in order to practice a little bit I'm using the deal.ii library. In particular, I'm looking at step-12, where they solve
$$\operatorname{div}(\beta u) = 0$$
$$u = g_D \text{...
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Discontinuous Galerkin: confusion about the weak formulation for linear advection equation
In an introduction to Discontinuous galerkin methods, I have some problems in checking the weak formulation. I'm looking at page 16 here
The context is the advection reaction equation: $$\operatorname{...
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discretizing surface integral using nodal DG method
I am currently learning nodal DG methods, primarily through the book by Warburton, and am a bit confused on how to handle surface integrals using straight edged elements. On page 187 (and on page 214)...
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Gauss-Lobatto quadrature and nodal points for FEM
By using the Legendre-Gauss-Lobatto (LGL) quadrature formula (QF) and LGL nodal points one achives a diagonal mass-matrix for finite element problems. (More specifically, the spectral element method.)
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Explicit DG time step restriction for compressible Navier-Stokes equations
Hesthaven's book 1 mentions the following time step restriction for Navier-Stokes equations (see (7.32) in 2008 edition)
$$
\Delta t \approx \frac{h}{N^2} \frac{C}{|u| + |c| + \frac
{N^2 \mu}{h}}
$$
($...
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Solution predictors for accelerating convergence in nonlinear FEM
I am looking for the details of commonly-used predictors for accelerating the convergence of iterations using Newton-Raphson scheme for nonlinear problems in FEM. I am looking specifically for static ...
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Pros of Fourier-Galerkin spectral methods
What are the pros of Fourier-Galerkin spectral methods while solving PDEs?
Here's the one that came in my mind first:
Easy implementation: using this method, differentiation operator computation is ...
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Calculate stable time step DG method for advection-diffusion
For stable time steps for the RKDG method for transport equations we require that
$$
\Delta t \le \frac{\Delta x CFL}{(2k + 1)|\lambda|},
$$
where $\lambda$ is the eigenvalue of our conservation law ...
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$P0$ elements for $H1$
Are there $P0$ (zero degree/constant element) nonconforming methods for approximating solutions in $H1$? More specifically, I have the equation:
$$u-f - T\Delta u = 0$$
Which can be interpreted as ...
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Cell-centered DG extension to the two-point flux approximation scheme
A current problem that I am working on requires me to compute the solution from the heat diffusion evolution on a discontinuous function. More precisely - I have a Delaunay triangulation and within ...
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Normalized legendre and quadrature basis for discontinous Galerkin method
I've successfully implemented a 1D DG code with non-normalized Legendre basis and I've now moved onto developing a 2D code using tensor products. For my 2D code I've chosen to have normalized ...
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Gradient-jump penalty term in FEM
I am slightly confused regarding the meaning of the $i-th$ gradient-jump term $[\nabla \phi_i]$ in the context of finite element methods, used in the assembly of the stiffness matrix (an example with <...
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Slope limiting for discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method
I had a question regarding the implementation of the TVB limiter for the RKDG method by Cockburn. I have seen that some implementations of the DG method use normalized Legendre polynomials such that ...
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Question regarding 1D implementation of the DG method
I'm pretty new to the DG method and have been writing a 1D code to help me understand the coding aspect. With respect a reference, I've been following these notes https://www3.nd.edu/~zxu2/...
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Are there any commercial CFD codes that implement a Discontinuous Galerkin scheme?
I've been reading about the Discontinuous Galerkin discretization scheme and it's application to CFD for fluid flow. It seems to be a promising method for simulating turbulent flows, by using higher-...
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Obtain velocity from imposed energy spectrum using the inverse FFT
I am trying to obtain the spatial representation of $u(x)$ (e.g. velocity) from its energy spectrum $E(k)=k^4\exp(-(k/k_0)^2)$, which is given in the frequency domain, provided $|u(k)|=\sqrt{2E(k)}$. ...
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How to compute turbulent energy cascade
I need to compute the kinetic energy cascade using a finite volume solution in an equally spaced grid. I wonder if it is more correct to first compute the kinetic energy in the space (or time) domain, ...
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calculation of the right hand side of DG FEM (with code)
I got stuck with Hestaven/Warburton's dG-FEM Matlab code.
Starting with the file AdvecRHS1D.m, we see in line 11
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Differentiation Matrix In DG-FEM - Hesthaven/Warburton
In the book of Hesthaven and Warburton on discontinual Galerkin methods the authors give motivation to the differentiation matrix (page 52), referred to as $D_r(i,j)=\frac{dl_j}{dr}|_{r_i}$ where $l_i(...
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Stability of hyperbolic PDE and DG-FEM
In the book of Hesthaven and Warburton on discontinuous Galerlkin methods in example 2.3 (regarding solutions of the wave equation), the authors regard the following PDE:
$$\frac{\partial u }{\...
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DG-FEM integration by parts
I am going through the book of Hesthaven and Warburton on discontinuous Galerkin methods. I have difficulties understanding some basic steps in the calculations.
Consider the PDE:
$$\frac{\partial u}...
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Library for Discontinuous Galerkin method: FEniCS vs deal.ii
I am aware that both FEniCS and deal.ii are capable of solving problems with Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method. I would like to specifically know if any of these two softwares can cater these ...
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$L^\infty$ stability property of an ODE
Suppose we have the initial-value problem on $(0,L)$:
$$
\frac{d u(x)}{d x} = f(x) u(x),\, \qquad x\in\Omega,\,~~ u(0) = u_0,
$$
I am reading a claim that says if we multiply the ODE by $u$ and ...
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Normalization of polynomials for discontinuous Galerkin methods (DGM)
I was curious if someone could share their opinion on this matter. I have noticed that some people in literature normalize their Legendre polynomials, i.e. divide or multiply the polynomial by $$\...
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Size of jump for piecewise discontinuous approximations
If one has a sufficiently smooth function $u$ that is approximated by a piecewise constant function $u_h=\Pi^0_h u$ on a mesh of cell size $h$ (where $\Pi^0_h$ is the $L_2$ projection onto the ...
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Penalization parameter for DG with jump penalization
I adapted this FEniCS code for my problem and I'm wondering if there is any good resource about how to choose the penalty parameter $\alpha$? Best case would be, if I can define it through some ...
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How is nonlinear flux interface term assembled for Discontinuous Galerkin method for hyperbolic conservation laws?
For example, for 1D Burgers equation
$$
u u_x = 0 \\
$$
equivalently,
$$
\frac{dF(u)}{dx} = 0\\
F(u)= \frac{u^2}{2}
$$
If I want to obtain $A_{ij},i\ne j$ for two DOFs ($U_i$ and $U_j$) of two ...
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Discontinuous Galerkin - Inhomogeneous Dirichlet B.C. for 1D Poisson Equation
I am trying to get some code working for the 1D Poisson equation using the textbook: Nodal Discontinuous Galerkin Methods Algorithms, Analysis, and Applications.
I use the following formulation (for ...
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Discontinuous Galerkin method VS Continuous Galerkin method Degrees of freedom
I was looking into the Book of Riviere " Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for solving Elliptic and Parabolic Equations". In the comparaison of section 2.12 (copied below), the example of rectangular ...
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Solving the Advection Equation with Forcing using the Discontinuous Galerkin Method
I've been learning about the Discontinous Galkerin Method by reading the book by Hesthaven and Warburton and have ran into a problem with the advection equation with forcing
$u_t + u_x = g(x,t)$
...
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Piecewise Constant Enrichment of the continuous galerkin method
I am interested to study crack propagation in a hyperelastic material in a variational setting. The crack surface exhibits a jump discontinuity. The function space for displacement field should ...
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Discontinuous Galerkin FEM : Control points are mid-points of edges instead of nodes
I am thinking to use discontinuous galerkin FEM (DGFEM) method to estimate discontinuous displacement field $u: \Omega \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^2$ at the crack surface of a material.
The domain is ...
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Do DG methods for the Helmholtz equation always return positive quantities?
Helmholtz Diffusion equation with reaction term:
$$
k\Delta u + u = f ~ \text{in} ~\Omega
$$
$$
\nabla u \cdot \mathbf{n} = 0 ~ \text{in} ~\partial \Omega
$$
For sufficiently small $k$ (relative to ...
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Interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin Matlab implementation
I want to solve the 2D poisson problem using the interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin methods:
−∇a(x)(∇u)=0 in Ω.
The variational formulation is such that :
$$a_{\epsilon}(u,v)=\sum_{K\in T_h}\...
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DG local equation, how to interpret mean-averaged test function
In the paper http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0045782509003521, an HDG element-local equation is described on page 584 equation (4), with one of the equations taking the following ...
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Viewing HDG FEM edge variables in vtk / paraview
For a 2D HDG code, I would like to be able to visualize the solution on the edge space between elements. Basically, this amounts to plotting the solution on the "green" nodes below.
Is there a ...
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Vandermonde matrix DG Hestaven
I am trying to understand the nodal and modal basis formulation from the book of Hesthaven (Nodal Discontinuous Galerkin Methods, Hesthaven, Jan S., Warburton, Tim). For $N=2$, I get the Vandermonde ...
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Higher order interpolation in DWR method
Based on page $35$ of the book:
(W. Bangerth and R. Rannacher, "Adaptive Finite Element Methods for Solving Differential Equations", Birkhäuser, 2003,)
for computing the error in dual weighted ...
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Orthonormal basis for hexahedron
Orthogonal polynomials are often preferred as basis functions. Recently I learned selecting orthonormal basis further simplifies the mass matrix from diagonal to simply the identity matrix when used ...
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How do we implement Parameter free generalised Moment limiter in 1D Case in Discontinuous Galerkin methods?
I am referring to this paper:-
"A Parameter-Free Generalized Moment Limiter for High-
Order Methods on Unstructured Grids " by Michael Yang and Z.J. Wang.
http://dept.ku.edu/~cfdku/papers/AIAA-2009-...
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Plot 2D piecewise constant in matlab in a finite elements mesh
I need to generate a discontinuous plot (piecewise in each triangle) in matlab, something like:
This plot is from http://www.alecjacobson.com/weblog/?p=3616, but I don't understand how generate it.
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Discontinuos Galerkin Method - inhomogeneous advection problem
I'm currently trying to get into this topic. I've learned that the basic scheme for the advection problem ($D_{x}u+a*D_{t}u=0$) can be solved in a scheme like $$ M^{k}\frac{d}{dt}u^{k}_{h}-(S^{k})^{T}...
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How to perform Taylor series expansion consisting of cell averaged derivatives in a computational element?
I have encountered the term cell "Cell averaged derivatives" and "Taylor series expansion using cell averaged derivatives about centroid" in the context of polynomial representation in any cell (...
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How do we derive the elemental equation for Discontinuous Galerkin method using Centered Numerical Flux?
If we take a 1st order polynomial approximation in each cell, we can find the (2x2) -mass matrix, differentiation matrix, and flux matrix through the integration of Lagrange polynomials.
However, I ...
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Is it possible to solve Euler equation numerically without using any flux limiter (in DG scheme)?
I have recently learned about Discontinuous Galerkin method to solve differential equations and I was trying to implement it to solve Euler equation. For now, consider the standard Sod Shock Tube Case....