Stabilization mechanisms in discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods

Stabilization Mechanisms in Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Methods

In this paper we propose a new general framework for the construction and the analysis of Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods which reveals a basic mechanism, responsible for certain distinctive stability properties of DG methods. We show that this mechanism is common to apparently unrelated stabilizations, including jump penalty, upwinding, and Hughes–Franca type residual-based stabilizations.

Parallel Iterative Discontinuous Galerkin Finite-element Methods

We compare an iterative asynchronous parallel algorithm for the solution of partial diierential equations, with a synchronous algorithm , in terms of termination detection schemes and performance. Both algorithms are based on discontinuous Galerkin nite-element methods, in which the local elements provide a natural decomposition of the problem into computationally-independent sets. We demonstra...

Minimal Stabilization for Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Methods for Hyperbolic Problems

We consider a discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for the advection–reaction equation in two space–dimensions. For polynomial approximation spaces of degree greater than or equal to two on triangles we propose a method where stability is obtained by a penalization of only the upper portion of the polynomial spectrum of the jump of the solution over element edges. We prove stability in ...

Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Methods for Photonic Crystals

Krylov-Subspace Preconditioners for Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Methods

Standard (conforming) finite element approximations of convection-dominated convectiondiffusion problems often exhibit poor stability properties that manifest themselves as nonphysical oscillations polluting the numerical solution. Various techniques have been proposed for the stabilisation of finite element methods (FEMs) for convection-diffusion problems, such as the popular streamline upwind...