Two types of solution overshoots in discontinuous Galerkin discretization schemes. (English) Zbl 1095.65079

Petrovskaya, N. B.

Commun. Math. Sci. 3, No. 2, 235-249 (2005).

Summary: We consider high order discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretization for steady state problems. It will be demonstrated that using a high order DG scheme to discretize a problem may result in two types of solution overshoots. The oscillations of the first type are associated with smooth approximation of solution discontinuities. In addition, the oscillations may appear in steady state problems as a result of incorrect flux approximation near the flux extremum point.

MSC:

65L60	Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz, Galerkin and collocation methods for ordinary differential equations
65L05	Numerical methods for initial value problems involving ordinary differential equations
34A34	Nonlinear ordinary differential equations and systems

Keywords:

discontinuous Galerkin method; steady state problem; spurious oscillations

Software:

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