Conservative and stable degree preserving SBP operators for non-conforming meshes

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DOI10.1007/S10915-017-0563-ZzbMATH Open1404.65087arXiv1611.00979OpenAlexW2750520431MaRDI QIDQ1635863FDOQ1635863

J. E. Hicken, Lucas Friedrich, Gregor J. Gassner, Andrew R. Winters, David C. Del Rey Fernández, D. W. Zingg

Publication date: 1 June 2018

Published in: Journal of Scientific Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Non-conforming numerical approximations offer increased flexibility for applications that require high resolution in a localized area of the computational domain or near complex geometries. Two key properties for non-conforming methods to be applicable to real world applications are conservation and energy stability. The summation-by-parts (SBP) property, which certain finite-difference and discontinuous Galerkin methods have, finds success for the numerical approximation of hyperbolic conservation laws, because the proofs of energy stability and conservation can discretely mimic the continuous analysis of partial differential equations. In addition, SBP methods can be developed with high-order accuracy, which is useful for simulations that contain multiple spatial and temporal scales. However, existing non-conforming SBP schemes result in a reduction of the overall degree of the scheme, which leads to a reduction in the order of the solution error. This loss of degree is due to the particular interface coupling through a simultaneous-approximation-term (SAT). We present in this work a novel class of SBP-SAT operators that maintain conservation, energy stability, and have no loss of the degree of the scheme for non-conforming approximations. The new emph{degree preserving} discretizations require an ansatz that the norm matrix of the SBP operator is of a degree geq2p, in contrast to, for example, existing finite difference SBP operators, where the norm matrix is 2p1 accurate. We demonstrate the fundamental properties of the new scheme with rigorous mathematical analysis as well as numerical verification.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.00979





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