Dispersion and dissipation error in high-order Runge-Kutta discontinuous Galerkin discretisations of the Maxwell equations

Journal of Scientific Computing

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 47-74

  Sarmany D ^a   Botchev, M A ^a   Van Der Vegt, J J W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

High order nodal discontinuous Galerkin methods; Maxwell equations; Numerical dispersion and dissipation; Strong stability preserving Runge Kutta methods

Indexed keywords

HIGH-ORDER NODAL DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHODS; NUMERICAL DISPERSION; NUMERICAL DISSIPATION; STRONG STABILITY PRESERVING RUNGE-KUTTA METHODS;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; INTEGRATION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; THEOREM PROVING;

GALERKIN METHODS;

EID: 34548425646     PISSN: 08857474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10915-007-9143-y     Document Type: Article

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