2021/09/15 by Lu Zhang, Zhang, Lu
Engineering · Mathematics · #65M12 #65M60 #Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics #Electromagnetic Simulation and Numerical Methods #FOS: Mathematics #Numerical Analysis (math.NA) #Numerical methods for differential equations
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2109.07033
openalex publication_date 2021/09/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This paper generalizes the earlier work on the energy-based discontinuous Galerkin method for second-order wave equations to fourth-order semilinear wave equations. We first rewrite the problem into a system with a second-order spatial derivative, then apply the energy-based discontinuous Galerkin method to the system. The proposed scheme, on the one hand, is more computationally efficient compared with the local discontinuous Galerkin method because of fewer auxiliary variables. On the other hand, it is unconditionally stable without adding any penalty terms, and admits optimal convergence in the L2 norm for both solution and auxiliary variables. In addition, the energy-dissipating or energy-conserving property of the scheme follows from simple, mesh-independent choices of the interelement fluxes. We also present a stability and convergence analysis along with numerical experiments to demonstrate optimal convergence for certain choices of the interelement fluxes.