Adaptive finite element relaxation schemes for hyperbolic conservation laws (Q2709435)

The authors study semidiscrete and fully discrete finite element schemes for hyperbolic conservation laws, which are based on a relaxation model. The relaxation system was proposed \textit{S. Jin} and \textit{Z. Xin} [Commun. Pure Appl. Math 48, No.~3, 235-277 (1995; Zbl 0826.65078)].NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe numerical scheme uses higher order polynomials and the consistency error is therefore of higher order, at least, in smooth regions. The finite element scheme is combined with an adaptive refinement in shock regions and mesh coarsening in smooth parts of the solution. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEIn time the relaxation system is discretized by the Runge-Kutta methods. Thus the stiff nonlinearity is treated implicitly, while the linear part is treated explicitly. Due to the structure of the relaxation system the resulting scheme is linear.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEAt the end of the paper the authors demonstrate computational performance of the proposed numerical method for the one-dimensional Burgers equation and for a one-dimensional system of nonlinear elastodynamics.