Truncation Error Estimation in the p-Anisotropic Discontinuous Galerkin Spectral Element Method

Abstract

In the context of Discontinuous Galerkin Spectral Element Methods (DGSEM), $\tau$-estimation has been successfully used for p-adaptation algorithms. This method estimates the truncation error of representations with different polynomial orders using the solution on a reference mesh of relatively high order. In this paper, we present a novel anisotropic truncation error estimator derived from the $\tau$-estimation procedure for DGSEM. We exploit the tensor product basis properties of the numerical solution to design a method where the total truncation error is calculated as a sum of its directional components. We show that the new error estimator is cheaper to evaluate than previous implementations of the $\tau$-estimation procedure and that it obtains more accurate extrapolations of the truncation error for representations of a higher order than the reference mesh. The robustness of the method allows performing the p-adaptation strategy with coarser reference solutions, thus further reducing the computational cost. The proposed estimator is validated using the method of manufactured solutions in a test case for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations.

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