Special Session 79: Recent Advancements in the Numerical Analysis of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

Approximating the solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi equations with dual-wind discontinuous Galerkin methods.

Aaron Rapp
University of the Virgin Islands
USA
Co-Author(s):    Aaron Rapp
Abstract:
A discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite-element interior calculus is used as a common framework to describe various DG approximation methods for second-order elliptic problems. This framework allows for the approximation of both primal and variational forms of second order differential equations. In this presentation, we will study the error from using the dual-wind DG derivatives to approximate the the solution to stationary and time-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi equations. Some analytical results will be presented, along with numerical examples that support the convergence of this method.