A hybrid finite element - finite volume method for conservation laws

DOI10.1016/J.AMC.2023.127846arXiv2208.14477MaRDI QIDQ6409288FDOQ6409288

Publication date: 30 August 2022

Abstract: We propose an arbitrarily high-order accurate numerical method for conservation laws that is based on a continuous approximation of the solution. The degrees of freedom are point values at cell interfaces and moments of the solution inside the cell. To lowest (

3^{e} x t r d

) order this method reduces to the Active Flux method. The update of the moments is achieved immediately by integrating the conservation law over the cell, integrating by parts and employing the continuity across cell interfaces. We propose two ways how the point values can be updated in time: either by first deriving a semi-discrete method that uses a finite-difference-type formula to approximate the spatial derivative, and integrating this method e.g. with a Runge-Kutta scheme, or by using a characteristics-based update, which is inspired by the original (fully discrete) Active Flux method. We analyze stability and accuracy of the resulting methods.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic conservation laws (35L65) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Finite volume methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M08) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Finite volume methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M12) Compressible fluids and gas dynamics (76N99)

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