Stationarity preservation and the low Mach number behaviour of the Discontinuous Galerkin method on Cartesian grids

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contents Due to added numerical stabilization (diffusion), the stationary states of numerical methods for hyperbolic problems need not be consistent discretizations of those of the PDEs. A closely related phenomenon is the lack of consistency of common finite volume methods for the Euler equations in the limit of low Mach number. In this work, the stationary states of the Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for linear acoustics on Cartesian grids are explored theoretically and experimentally, thus extending previous studies in the context of first-order finite difference methods. It is found that for a polynomial degree above some threshold, DG is stationarity preserving, but depending on the choice of numerical flux can suffer from a reduction of the order of accuracy at stationary state. This allows to explain the behaviour of the method for the Euler equations at low Mach number.
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spellingShingle Stationarity preservation and the low Mach number behaviour of the Discontinuous Galerkin method on Cartesian grids
Barsukow, Wasilij
Numerical Analysis
65M20, 65M70, 65M08, 35E15
Due to added numerical stabilization (diffusion), the stationary states of numerical methods for hyperbolic problems need not be consistent discretizations of those of the PDEs. A closely related phenomenon is the lack of consistency of common finite volume methods for the Euler equations in the limit of low Mach number. In this work, the stationary states of the Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for linear acoustics on Cartesian grids are explored theoretically and experimentally, thus extending previous studies in the context of first-order finite difference methods. It is found that for a polynomial degree above some threshold, DG is stationarity preserving, but depending on the choice of numerical flux can suffer from a reduction of the order of accuracy at stationary state. This allows to explain the behaviour of the method for the Euler equations at low Mach number.
title Stationarity preservation and the low Mach number behaviour of the Discontinuous Galerkin method on Cartesian grids
topic Numerical Analysis
65M20, 65M70, 65M08, 35E15
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18505