Semi-discrete Active Flux as a Petrov-Galerkin method

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Main Author: Barsukow, Wasilij
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Published: 2025
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contents Active Flux (AF) is a recent numerical method for hyperbolic conservation laws, whose degrees of freedom are averages/moments and (shared) point values at cell interfaces. It has been noted previously in a heuristic fashion that it thus combines ideas from Finite Volume/Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods with a continuous approximation common in continuous Finite Element (CG) methods. This work shows that the semi-discrete Active Flux method on Cartesian meshes can be obtained from a variational formulation through a particular choice of (biorthogonal) test functions. These latter being discontinuous, the new formulation emphasizes the intermediate nature of AF between DG and CG.
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spellingShingle Semi-discrete Active Flux as a Petrov-Galerkin method
Barsukow, Wasilij
Numerical Analysis
Active Flux (AF) is a recent numerical method for hyperbolic conservation laws, whose degrees of freedom are averages/moments and (shared) point values at cell interfaces. It has been noted previously in a heuristic fashion that it thus combines ideas from Finite Volume/Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods with a continuous approximation common in continuous Finite Element (CG) methods. This work shows that the semi-discrete Active Flux method on Cartesian meshes can be obtained from a variational formulation through a particular choice of (biorthogonal) test functions. These latter being discontinuous, the new formulation emphasizes the intermediate nature of AF between DG and CG.
title Semi-discrete Active Flux as a Petrov-Galerkin method
topic Numerical Analysis
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15017