2012 journal article

A Reconstructed Discontinuous Galerkin Method for the Euler Equations on Arbitrary Grids

COMMUNICATIONS IN COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS, 12(5), 1495–1519.

By: H. Luo n, L. Luo n & R. Nourgaliev*

co-author countries: United States of America πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ
author keywords: Discontinuous Galerkin methods; least-squares reconstruction; compressible Euler equations
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Added: August 6, 2018

Abstract A reconstruction-based discontinuous Galerkin (RDG(P1P2)) method, a variant of P1P2 method, is presented for the solution of the compressible Euler equations on arbitrary grids. In this method, an in-cell reconstruction, designed to enhance the accuracy of the discontinuous Galerkin method, is used to obtain a quadratic polynomial solution (P2) from the underlying linear polynomial (P1) discontinuous Galerkin solution using a least-squares method. The stencils used in the reconstruction involve only the von Neumann neighborhood (face-neighboring cells) and are compact and consistent with the underlying DG method. The developed RDG method is used to compute a variety of flow problems on arbitrary meshes to demonstrate its accuracy, efficiency, robustness, and versatility. The numerical results indicate that this RDG(P1P2) method is third-order accurate, and outperforms the third-order DG method (DG(P2)) in terms of both computing costs and storage requirements.