A High Order Adaptive Finite Element Method for Solving Nonlinear Hyperbolic Conservation Laws

A High Order Adaptive Finite Element Method for Solving Nonlinear Hyperbolic Conservation Laws

Year:    2011

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 29 (2011), Iss. 5 : pp. 491–500

Abstract

In this note, we apply the $h$-adaptive streamline diffusion finite element method with a small mesh-dependent artificial viscosity to solve nonlinear hyperbolic partial differential equations, with the objective of achieving high order accuracy and mesh efficiency. We compute the numerical solution to a steady state Burgers equation and the solution to a converging-diverging nozzle problem. The computational results verify that, by suitably choosing the artificial viscosity coefficient and applying the adaptive strategy based on a posterior error estimate by Johnson et al., an order of $N^{-3/2}$ accuracy can be obtained when continuous piecewise linear elements are used, where $N$ is the number of elements.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/jcm.1105-m3392

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 29 (2011), Iss. 5 : pp. 491–500

Published online:    2011-01

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Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    10

Keywords:    Adaptive finite element Nonlinear hyperbolic conservation law.

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