This paper proposes and analyzes two fully discrete mixed interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for the fourth order nonlinear Cahn-Hilliard equation. Both methods use the backward Euler method for time discretization and interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin methods for spatial discretization. They differ from each other on how the nonlinear term is treated, one of them is bas...

The symmetric interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin finite element method is presented for the numerical discretization of the second-order wave equation. The resulting stiffness matrix is symmetric positive definite and the mass matrix is essentially diagonal; hence, the method is inherently parallel and leads to fully explicit time integration when coupled with an explicit timestepping sche...

This paper presents three new coupling methods for interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods and boundary element methods. The new methods allow one to use discontinuous basis functions on the interface between the subdomains represented by the finite element and boundary element methods. This feature is particularly important when discontinuous Galerkin finite element meth...

In this pat)er we introduce a high order discontinuous Galerkin method for two dimensional incoinpressible flow in vorticity streamfunction fornnllation. The inonlentuni equation is treated exl)licitly, utilizing the efficiency of the discontimtous Galerkin method. The streanlflmction is obtained by a standard Poiss(m solver using (:ontinu(lus finite elenmnts. There is a natural matching betwee...

We prove in an abstract setting that standard (continuous) Galerkin finite element approximations are the limit of interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin approximations as the penalty parameter tends to infinity. We apply this result to equations of non-negative characteristic form and the non-linear, time dependent system of incompressible miscible displacement. Moreover, we investigate varyi...

A space-time discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element method for nonlinear water waves in an inviscid and incompressible fluid is presented. The space-time DG method results in a conservative numerical discretization on time dependent deforming meshes which follow the free surface evolution. The dispersion and dissipation errors of the scheme are investigated and the algorithm is demonstrated...

A finite element method for elasticity systems with discontinuities in the coefficients and the flux across an arbitrary interface is proposed in this paper. The method is based on a Cartesian mesh with local modifications to the mesh. The total degrees of the freedom of the finite element method remains the same as that of the Cartesian mesh. The local modifications lead to a quasi-uniform bod...

For the stationary advection-diffusion problem the standard continuous Galerkin method is unstable without some additional control on the mesh or method. The interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin method is stable but at the expense of an increased number of degrees of freedom. The hybrid method proposed in [5] combines the computational complexity of the continuous method with the stability o...

We present a discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for two depth-averaged two-phase flow models. One of these models contains nonconservative products for which we developed a discontinuous Galerkin finite element formulation in Rhebergen et al. (2008) J. Comput. Phys. 227, 1887-1922. The other model is a new depth-averaged two-phase flow model we introduce for shallow two-phase flows th...