Abstract
This is the fifth paper in a series in which we construct and study the so-called Runge-Kutta discontinuous Galerkin method for numerically solving hyperbolic conservation laws. In this paper, we extend the method to multidimensional nonlinear systems of conservation laws. The algorithms are described and discussed, including algorithm formulation and practical implementation issues such as the numerical fluxes, quadrature rules, degrees of freedom, and the slope limiters, both in the triangular and the rectangular element cases. Numerical experiments for two-dimensional Euler equations of compressible gas dynamics are presented that show the effect of the (formal) order of accuracy and the use of triangles or rectangles on the quality of the approximation.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 199-224 |
| Number of pages | 26 |
| Journal | Journal of Computational Physics |
| Volume | 141 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Apr 10 1998 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:2 Research supported by ARO Grant DAAH04-94-G-0205, NSF Grant DMS-9500814, NASA Langley Grant NAG-1-1145, and Contract NAS1-19480 while this author was in residence at ICASE, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23681-0001, and AFOSR Grant 95-1-0074.
Funding Information:
1 Research partially supported by NSF Grant DMS-9407952 and by the University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute.
Keywords
- Discontinuous Galerkin
- Euler equations
- Slope limiters