Title
New directional vector limiters for discontinuous Galerkin methods
Abstract
Second and higher order numerical approximations of conservation laws for vector fields call for the use of limiting techniques based on generalized monotonicity criteria. In this paper, we introduce a family of directional vertex-based slope limiters for tensor-valued gradients of formally second-order accurate piecewise-linear discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretizations. The proposed methodology enforces local maximum principles for scalar products corresponding to projections of a vector field onto the unit vectors of a frame-invariant orthogonal basis. In particular, we consider anisotropic limiters based on singular value decompositions and the Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization procedure. The proposed extension to hyperbolic systems features a sequential limiting strategy and a global invariant domain fix. The pros and cons of different approaches to vector limiting are illustrated by the results of numerical studies for the two-dimensional shallow water equations and for the Euler equations of gas dynamics.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1016/j.jcp.2019.01.032
Journal of Computational Physics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Hyperbolic conservation laws,Discontinuous Galerkin methods,Vector limiters,Objectivity,Shallow water equations,Euler equations
Discontinuous Galerkin method,Vector field,Mathematical analysis,Direction vector,Orthogonal basis,Euler equations,Orthogonalization,Mathematics,Shallow water equations,Unit vector
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
384
0021-9991
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hennes Hajduk100.68
Dmitri Kuzmin216723.90
Vadym Aizinger3358.24