A discontinuous Galerkin scheme for front propagation with obstacles (Q2436533): Difference between revisions

The authors are interested in numerical schemes for front propagation problems that come from deterministic attainability problems, or optimal control problems. They consider the following equation \[ \min(u_t+ H(x,\nabla u),\;u-g(x))= 0,\quad x\in\mathbb{R}^d,\quad t> 0, \] together with an initial \(u(0,x)= u_0(x)\), \(x\in\mathbb{R}^d\). Here \(g(x)\) is called the ``obstacle function'' and the equation will be referred as the ``obstacle equation''. The authors propose a discontinuous Galerkin approach to solve these problems. -- Numerical results are presented.