Accuracy Enhancement of Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Hyperbolic Systems

Accuracy Enhancement of Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Hyperbolic Systems

Year:    2014

Numerical Mathematics: Theory, Methods and Applications, Vol. 7 (2014), Iss. 2 : pp. 214–233

Abstract

We study the enhancement of accuracy, by means of the convolution post-processing technique, for discontinuous Galerkin(DG) approximations to hyperbolic problems. Previous investigations have focused on the superconvergence obtained by this technique for elliptic, time-dependent hyperbolic and convection-diffusion problems. In this paper, we demonstrate that it is possible to extend this post-processing technique to the hyperbolic problems written as the Friedrichs' systems by using an upwind-like DG method. We prove that the $L_2$-error of the DG solution is of order $k+1/2$, and further the post-processed DG solution is of order $2k+1$ if $Q_k$-polynomials are used. The key element of our analysis is to derive the $(2k+1)$-order negative norm error estimate. Numerical experiments are provided to illustrate the theoretical analysis.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/nmtma.2014.1216nm

Numerical Mathematics: Theory, Methods and Applications, Vol. 7 (2014), Iss. 2 : pp. 214–233

Published online:    2014-01

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Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    20

Keywords:    Discontinuous Galerkin method hyperbolic problem accuracy enhancement post-processing negative norm error estimate.