Smoothness-Increasing Accuracy-Conserving Filters for Discontinuous Galerkin Solutions over Unstructured Triangular Meshes

The discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method has very quickly found utility in such diverse applications as computational solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, acoustics, and electromagnetics. The DG methodology merely requires weak constraints on the fluxes between elements. This feature provides a flexibility which is difficult to match with...

Smoothness-Increasing Accuracy-Conserving (SIAC) Postprocessing for Discontinuous Galerkin Solutions over Structured Triangular Meshes

Theoretically and computationally, it is possible to demonstrate that the order of accuracy of a discontinuous Galerkin (DG) solution for linear hyperbolic equations can be improved from order $k$+1 to 2$k$+1 through the use of smoothness-increasing accuracy-conserving (SIAC) filtering. However, it is a computationally complex task to perform...

Efficient Implementation of Smoothness-Increasing Accuracy-Conserving (SIAC) Filters for Discontinuous Galerkin Solutions

The discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods provide a high-order extension of the finite volume method in much the same way as high-order or spectral/hp elements extend standard finite elements. However, lack of inter-element continuity is often contrary to the smoothness assumptions upon which many post-processing algorithms such as those used in...

Position-dependent smoothness-increasing accuracy-conserving (SIAC) filtering for improving discontinuous Galerkin solutions

Position-dependent smoothness-increasing accuracy-conserving (SIAC) filtering is a promising technique not only in improving the order of the numerical solution obtained by a discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method but also in increasing the smoothness of the field and improving the magnitude of the errors. This was initially established as an...

Local Derivative Post-processing: Challenges for a non-uniform mesh

Previous investigations into accuracy enhancement for the derivatives of a discontinuous Galerkin solution demonstrated that there are many ways to approach obtaining higher order accuracy in the derivatives, each with different advantageous properties [J.K. Ryan and B. Cockburn (2009), “Local Derivative Post-Processing for the Discontinuous...

Local derivative post-processing: Challenges for a non-uniform mesh

Previous investigations into accuracy enhancement for the derivatives of a discontinuous Galerkin solution demonstrated that there are many ways to approach obtaining higher order accuracy in the derivatives, each with different advantageous properties. For the discontinuous Galerkin method, the order of accuracy without post-processing for the...