In this paper, we develop, analyze and test a local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) method for solving the Camassa-Holm equation which contains nonlinear high order derivatives. The LDG method has the flexibility for arbitrary h and p adaptivity. We prove the L2 stability for general solutions and give a detailed error estimate for smooth solutions, and provide numerical simulation results for different types of solutions of the nonlinear Camassa-Holm equation to illustrate the accuracy and capability of the LDG method.

The field of discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods has attracted considerable recent attention from scholars in the applied sciences and engineering. This volume brings together scholars working in this area, each representing a particular theme or direction of current research. Derived from the 2012 Barrett Lectures at the University of Tennessee, the papers reflect the state of the field today and point toward possibilities for future inquiry. The longer survey lectures, delivered by Franco Brezzi and Chi-Wang Shu, respectively, focus on theoretical aspects of discontinuous Galerkin methods for elliptic and evolution problems. Other papers apply DG methods to cases involving radiative transport equations, error estimates, and time-discrete higher order ALE functions, among other areas. Combining focused case studies with longer sections of expository discussion, this book will be an indispensable reference for researchers and students working with discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods and its applications.

This book presents some of the latest developments in numerical analysis and scientific computing. Specifically, it covers central schemes, error estimates for discontinuous Galerkin methods, and the use of wavelets in scientific computing.

The Ginzburg-Landau equation has been applied widely in many fields. It describes the amplitude evolution of instability waves in a large variety of dissipative systems in fluid mechanics, which are close to criticality. In this chapter, we develop a local discontinuous Galerkin method to solve the nonlinear Ginzburg-Landau equation. The nonlinear Ginzburg-Landau problem has been expressed as a system of low-order differential equations. Moreover, we prove stability and optimal order of convergence OhN+1 for Ginzburg-Landau equation where h and N are the space step size and polynomial degree, respectively. The numerical experiments confirm the theoretical results of the method.

This volume contains contributed survey papers from the main speakers at the LMS/EPSRC Symposium “Building bridges: connections and challenges in modern approaches to numerical partial differential equations”. This meeting took place in July 8-16, 2014, and its main purpose was to gather specialists in emerging areas of numerical PDEs, and explore the connections between the different approaches. The type of contributions ranges from the theoretical foundations of these new techniques, to the applications of them, to new general frameworks and unified approaches that can cover one, or more than one, of these emerging techniques.

In the first part, we briefly review the discontinuous Garlerkin (DG) method and the local discontinuous Garlerkin (LDG) method. We discuss the development of those methods and explain in detail how they can be used to solve various partial differential equations. We use numerical examples to demonstrate the application of the two methods. In the second part, we develop a LDG method for Khokhlov-Zabolotskaya-Kuznet- zov (KZK) equation. L2 stability is proved for the method and several acoustic examples are studied in comparison with results of previous researchers. We show that our method produces more accurate results in some limiting cases of KZK equaiton. In the last part, an energy conserving LDG method is developed for the improved Boussinesq equation. We show that high order accuracy method can be designed. We demonstrate that optimal order accuracy can be achieved for piecewise polynomial base space and present the process we discovered the method. We also apply our algorithm to solitary waves to understand the phenomenon of the propagation of such waves.

This contributed volume contains a collection of articles on state-of-the-art developments on the construction of theoretical integral techniques and their application to specific problems in science and engineering. Written by internationally recognized researchers, the chapters in this book are based on talks given at the Thirteenth International Conference on Integral Methods in Science and Engineering, held July 21–25, 2014, in Karlsruhe, Germany. A broad range of topics is addressed, from problems of existence and uniqueness for singular integral equations on domain boundaries to numerical integration via finite and boundary elements, conservation laws, hybrid methods, and other quadrature-related approaches. This collection will be of interest to researchers in applied mathematics, physics, and mechanical and electrical engineering, as well as graduate students in these disciplines and other professionals for whom integration is an essential tool.