Optimization-based limiters for the spectral element method

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 267, Issue , 2014, Pages 176-195

  Guba, Oksana ^a   Taylor, Mark ^b   St Cyr, Amik ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite element method; High order; Limiters; Local extrema diminishing; Mimetic; Monotone; Spectral element method

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS);

A-MONOTONE; HIGH-ORDER; HIGHER-ORDER; LOCAL EXTREMUM DIMINISHING; MIMETICS; MONOTONE; OPTIMISATIONS; PROPERTY; SPECTRAL ELEMENT; SPECTRAL ELEMENT METHOD;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 84896522325     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2014.02.029     Document Type: Article

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