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Main Authors: Dufresne-Piché, Mathias, Nadarajah, Siva
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.24111
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author Dufresne-Piché, Mathias
Nadarajah, Siva
author_facet Dufresne-Piché, Mathias
Nadarajah, Siva
contents The energy stable flux reconstruction (ESFR) method provides an efficient and flexible framework to devise high-order linearly stable numerical schemes which can achieve high levels of accuracy on unstructured grids. While superconvergent properties of ESFR schemes have been observed in numerical experiments, no formal proof of this behavior has been reported in the literature. In this work, we attempt to address this by providing a simple derivation for the superconvergence of the dispersion-dissipation error of ESFR schemes for the linear advection problem when using an upwind numerical flux. We show that the superconvergence of ESFR schemes essentially relies on the capacity of the latter to generate superconvergent rational approximants of the exponential function, which is reminiscent of well-known theoretical results for superconvergence of discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods. We also demonstrate that the drops in order of accuracy which are observed in numerical experiments as the ESFR scalar $c$ is increased are caused by both a modification of the structure of these rational approximants and a change in the multiplicity of the physical eigenvalue of the schemes as $c \to \infty$. Finally, our theoretical results are successfully validated against numerical experiments.
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spellingShingle On the Superconvergence of ESFR Schemes
Dufresne-Piché, Mathias
Nadarajah, Siva
Numerical Analysis
65M60
The energy stable flux reconstruction (ESFR) method provides an efficient and flexible framework to devise high-order linearly stable numerical schemes which can achieve high levels of accuracy on unstructured grids. While superconvergent properties of ESFR schemes have been observed in numerical experiments, no formal proof of this behavior has been reported in the literature. In this work, we attempt to address this by providing a simple derivation for the superconvergence of the dispersion-dissipation error of ESFR schemes for the linear advection problem when using an upwind numerical flux. We show that the superconvergence of ESFR schemes essentially relies on the capacity of the latter to generate superconvergent rational approximants of the exponential function, which is reminiscent of well-known theoretical results for superconvergence of discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods. We also demonstrate that the drops in order of accuracy which are observed in numerical experiments as the ESFR scalar $c$ is increased are caused by both a modification of the structure of these rational approximants and a change in the multiplicity of the physical eigenvalue of the schemes as $c \to \infty$. Finally, our theoretical results are successfully validated against numerical experiments.
title On the Superconvergence of ESFR Schemes
topic Numerical Analysis
65M60
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.24111