Discontinuous Galerkin methods with optimal \(L^2\) accuracy for one dimensional linear PDEs with high order spatial derivatives (Q2420685)

Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods are developed for solving linear PDEs with high order spatial derivatives; a heat equation, a fourth-order equation, a third-order wave equation, and the linear Schrödinger equation in one dimension. A general class of a sub-family of numerical fluxes is identified by choosing the coefficients in the linear combinations to ensure the optimal accuracy of the numerical solution and of some auxiliary variables in the \(L_2\) norm. The optimality of the schemes is proved analytically with special projection operators, tailored for each choice of the numerical fluxes, in order to eliminate those terms at cell interfaces to achieve the optimal error estimates. The theoretical findings are validated by several numerical examples.