Title
A discontinuous Galerkin method based on a Taylor basis for the compressible flows on arbitrary grids
Abstract
A discontinuous Galerkin method based on a Taylor basis is presented for the solution of the compressible Euler equations on arbitrary grids. Unlike the traditional discontinuous Galerkin methods, where either standard Lagrange finite element or hierarchical node-based basis functions are used to represent numerical polynomial solutions in each element, this DG method represents the numerical polynomial solutions using a Taylor series expansion at the centroid of the cell. Consequently, this formulation is able to provide a unified framework, where both cell-centered and vertex-centered finite volume schemes can be viewed as special cases of this discontinuous Galerkin method by choosing reconstruction schemes to compute the derivatives, offer the insight why the DG methods are a better approach than the finite volume methods based on either TVD/MUSCL reconstruction or essentially non-oscillatory (ENO)/weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) reconstruction, and has a number of distinct, desirable, and attractive features, which can be effectively used to address some of shortcomings of the DG methods. The developed method is used to compute a variety of both steady-state and time-accurate flow problems on arbitrary grids. The numerical results demonstrated the superior accuracy of this discontinuous Galerkin method in comparison with a second order finite volume method and a third-order WENO method, indicating its promise and potential to become not just a competitive but simply a superior approach than its finite volume and ENO/WENO counterparts for solving flow problems of scientific and industrial interest.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1016/j.jcp.2008.06.035
J. Comput. Physics
Keywords
Field
DocType
arbitrary grid,arbitrary grids,compressible flow,finite volume,developed method,traditional discontinuous galerkin method,discontinuous galerkin methods,compressible flows,discontinuous galerkin method,numerical polynomial solution,dg method,finite volume method,third-order weno method,order finite volume method,taylor basis,finite element,taylor series expansion,steady state,second order
Discontinuous Galerkin method,Mathematical optimization,Polynomial,Mathematical analysis,Galerkin method,Finite element method,Basis function,Finite volume method,Euler equations,Mathematics,Taylor series
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
227
20
Journal of Computational Physics
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
31
1.78
3
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hong Luo1959.69
Joseph D. Baum2737.00
Rainald Löhner313815.24