Georg May

Mohammad Zakerzadeh, Georg May

In this paper, we present a shock capturing discontinuous Galerkin (SC-DG) method for nonlinear systems of conservation laws in several space dimensions and analyze its stability and convergence. The scheme is realized as a space-time formulation in terms of entropy variables using an entropy stable numerical flux. While being similar to the method proposed in [14], our approach is new in that we do not use streamline diffusion (SD) stabilization. It is proved that an artificial-viscosity-based nonlinear shock capturing mechanism is sufficient to ensure both entropy stability and entropy consistency, and consequently we establish convergence to an entropy measure-valued (emv) solution. The result is valid for general systems and arbitrary order discontinuous Galerkin method.

Mohammad Zakerzadeh, Georg May

In this manuscript we present an approach to analyze the discontinuous Galerkin solution for general quasilinear elliptic problems. This approach is sufficiently general to extend most of the well-known discretization schemes, including BR1, BR2, SIPG and LDG, to nonlinear cases in a canonical way, and to establish the stability of their solution. Furthermore, in case of monotone and globally Lipschitz problems, we prove the existence and uniqueness of the approximated solution and the $h$-optimality of the error estimate in the energy norm as well as in the $L_2$ norm.

Georg May, Mohammad Zakerzadeh

We prove convergence of a class of space-time discontinuous Galerkin schemes for scalar hyperbolic conservation laws. Convergence to the unique entropy solution is shown for all orders of polynomial approximation, provided strictly monotone flux functions and a suitable shock-capturing operator are used. The main improvement, compared to previously published results of similar scope, is that no streamline-diffusion stabilization is used. This is the way discontinuous Galerkin schemes were originally proposed, and are most often used in practice.