Abstract. In this paper, both semidiscrete and completely discrete finite volume element methods (FVEMs) are analyzed for approximating solutions of a class of linear hyperbolic integrodifferential equations in a two-dimensional convex polygonal domain. The effect of numerical quadrature is also examined. In the semidiscrete case, optimal error estimates in L(L) and L (H) norms are shown to hol...

We derive a posteriori error estimates for the discretization of the heat equation in a unified and fully discrete setting comprising the discontinuous Galerkin, finite volume, mixed finite element, and conforming and nonconforming finite element methods in space and the backward Euler scheme in time. Our estimates are based on a H-conforming reconstruction of the potential, continuous and piec...

In this paper an evolving surface finite volume method is introduced for the numerical resolution of a transport diffusion problem on a family of moving hypersurfaces. These surfaces are assumed to evolve according to a given motion field. The ingredients of the method are an approximation of the family of surfaces by a family of interpolating simplicial meshes, where grid vertices move on moti...

1. Poisson Equation 1 2. Outline of Topics 3 2.1. Finite Difference Method 3 2.2. Finite Element Method 3 2.3. Finite Volume Method 3 2.4. Sobolev Spaces and Theory on Elliptic Equations 3 2.5. Iterative Methods: Conjugate Gradient and Multigrid Methods 3 2.6. Nonlinear Elliptic Equations 3 2.7. Fast Multiple Method 3 3. Physical Examples 4 3.1. Gauss’ law and Newtonian gravity 4 3.2. Electrost...

A numerical method for the reconstruction of interfaces in finite volume schemes for multiphase flows is presented. The computation of the triple-point at the intersection of three materials in two dimensions of space is addressed. The determination of the normal vectors between pairs of materials is obtained with a finite element approximation. A numerical method for the localization of a trip...

We present a hybrid finite-volume-particle numerical method for computing the transport of a passive pollutant by a flow. The flow is modeled by the oneand two-dimensional Saint-Venant system of shallow water equations and the pollutant propagation is described by a transport equation. This paper is an extension of our previous work [Chertock, Kurganov and Petrova, J. Sci. Comput. (to appear)],...

in this paper a novel numerical approach is presented for solving the transient incompressible fluid flow problems with free surfaces in generalized two-dimensional curvilinear coordinate systems. solution algorithm is a combination of implicit real-time steps and explicit pseudo-time steps. governing fluid flow equations are discretized using a collocated finite-volume mesh. convective terms a...

In this paper, we consider the issue of convergence toward entropy solutions for high order finite volume weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) scheme and discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element method approximating scalar nonconvex conservation laws. Although such high order nonlinearly stable schemes can usually converge to entropy solutions of convex conservation laws, convergence m...

In our talk, we propose an adaptive mesh-refining strategy for the cell-centered FVM based on some a posteriori error control for the quantity ‖∇T (u − Iuh)‖L2 . Here, uh ∈ P (T ) denotes the FVM approximation of u and I is a certain interpolation operator. As model example serves the Laplace equation with mixed boundary conditions, where our contributions extend a result of [NIC05]. Moreover, ...

Improved Finite-Volume Method for Radiative Hydrodynamics Alan Wray* Corresponding author: [email protected] * NASA Ames Research Center, USA Abstract: Fully coupled simulations of hydrodynamics and radiative transfer are essential to a number of fields ranging from astrophysics to engineering applications. Of particular interest in this work are hypersonic atmospheric entries and associate...