Dispersion and dissipation error in high-order Runge-Kutta discontinuous Galerkin discretisations of the Maxwell equations (Q2458265)

The main purpose of this paper is to study the global dispersion and dissipation errors of a high-order discontinuous Galerkin spectral element discretisation combined with the high-order strong-stability-preserving Runge-Kutta (SSP-RK) time integration. It is shown that by appying the \((p+1)\)st order SSP-RK scheme to a spatial discretisation with \(p\)th order polynomials one can retain \((p+1)\)st order convergence in the \(l_2\)-norm. One-dimensional and two-dimensional Fourier analysis is carried out and the associated numerical results are presented. Finally, the authors examine the behaviour of the dispersion and dissipation errors in terms of the mesh size per wave length and the size of the time step.