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most citedSummation-By-Parts Operators and High-Order Quadrature

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math.NA2026

Targeted Entropy-Stable Nonlinear Artificial Dissipation for High-Order Spectral-Element Summation-By-Parts Discretizations

Zelalem Arega Worku, Alex Bercik, David C. Del Rey Fernández +1

Artificial dissipation improves the robustness of high-order methods for under-resolved flows, but can compromise accuracy and suppress physically relevant structures if its streng…

math.NA2026

Construction and Optimization of Summation-by-Parts Operators for General Function Spaces Using an Improved Generalized Gaussian Quadrature Algorithm

Alex Bercik, Lisa Patrascu, David W. Zingg

We construct optimized summation-by-parts (SBP) operators for general function spaces with provably minimal degrees of freedom on open, closed, and half-open nodal distributions. T…

math.NA2026

On the Practical Impact of Local Linear Instabilities in Entropy-Stable Schemes

Alex Bercik, David W. Zingg

Local linear instability refers to the linearized discrete operator exhibiting perturbation growth exceeding that of the corresponding continuous linearized problem. In the context…

math.NA2026

Convergence of entropy-stable continuous summation-by-parts discretizations of symmetric hyperbolic conservation laws

Zelalem Arega Worku, David C. Del Rey Fernández, David W. Zingg

The Lax equivalence theorem guarantees convergence of stable and consistent discretizations for linear hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs). For nonlinear problems, how…

math.NA2025

Stable Volume Dissipation for High-Order Finite-Difference and Spectral-Element Methods with the Summation-by-Parts Property

Alex Bercik, David A. Craig Penner, David W. Zingg

The construction of stable, conservative, and accurate volume dissipation is extended to discretizations that possess a generalized summation-by-parts (SBP) property within a tenso…

math.NA2024

Very high-order symmetric positive-interior quadrature rules on triangles and tetrahedra

Zelalem Arega Worku, Jason E. Hicken, David W. Zingg

We present novel fully-symmetric quadrature rules with positive weights and strictly interior nodes of degrees up to 84 on triangles and 40 on tetrahedra. Initial guesses for solvi…

math.NA2024

Tensor-Product Split-Simplex Summation-By-Parts Operators

Zelalem Arega Worku, Jason E. Hicken, David W. Zingg

We present an approach to construct efficient sparse summation-by-parts (SBP) operators on triangles and tetrahedra with a tensor-product structure. The operators are constructed b…

math.NA2023★ 12 cited

Efficient Entropy-Stable Discontinuous Spectral-Element Methods Using Tensor-Product Summation-by-Parts Operators on Triangles and Tetrahedra

Tristan Montoya, David W. Zingg

We present a new class of efficient and robust discontinuous spectral-element methods of arbitrary order for nonlinear hyperbolic systems of conservation laws on curved triangular…

math.NA2023

Quadrature Rules on Triangles and Tetrahedra for Multidimensional Summation-By-Parts Operators

Zelalem Arega Worku, Jason E. Hicken, David W. Zingg

Multidimensional diagonal-norm summation-by-parts (SBP) operators with collocated volume and facet nodes, known as diagonal- operators, are attractive for entropy-sta…

math.OC2023

A Solution to the Ill-Conditioning of Gradient-Enhanced Covariance Matrices for Gaussian Processes

André L. Marchildon, David W. Zingg

Gaussian processes provide probabilistic surrogates for various applications including classification, uncertainty quantification, and optimization. Using a gradient-enhanced covar…

math.NA2023★ 5 cited

Efficient Tensor-Product Spectral-Element Operators with the Summation-by-Parts Property on Curved Triangles and Tetrahedra

Tristan Montoya, David W. Zingg

We present an extension of the summation-by-parts (SBP) framework to tensor-product spectral-element operators in collapsed coordinates. The proposed approach enables the construct…

math.NA2023

Entropy-split multidimensional summation-by-parts discretization of the Euler and compressible Navier-Stokes equations

Zelalem Arega Worku, David W. Zingg

High-order Hadamard-form entropy stable multidimensional summation-by-parts discretizations of the Euler and compressible Navier-Stokes equations are considerably more expensive th…

math.NA2021

Stability and Functional Superconvergence of Narrow-Stencil Second-Derivative Generalized Summation-By-Parts Discretizations

Zelalem Arega Worku, David W. Zingg

We analyze the stability and functional superconvergence of discretizations of diffusion problems with the narrow-stencil second-derivative generalized summation-by-parts (SBP) ope…

math.NA2021★ 10 cited

A unifying algebraic framework for discontinuous Galerkin and flux reconstruction methods based on the summation-by-parts property

Tristan Montoya, David W. Zingg

We propose a unifying framework for the matrix-based formulation and analysis of discontinuous Galerkin (DG) and flux reconstruction (FR) methods for conservation laws on general u…

math.NA2020★ 5 cited

Simultaneous approximation terms and functional accuracy for diffusion problems discretized with multidimensional summation-by-parts operators

Zelalem Arega Worku, David W. Zingg

Several types of simultaneous approximation term (SAT) for diffusion problems discretized with diagonal-norm multidimensional summation-by-parts (SBP) operators are analyzed based…

math.NA2016

Conservative and Stable Degree Preserving SBP Operators for Non-Conforming Meshes

Lucas Friedrich, David C. Del Rey Fernandez, Andrew R. Winters +3

Non-conforming numerical approximations offer increased flexibility for applications that require high resolution in a localized area of the computational domain or near complex ge…

math.NA2016

Simultaneous Approximation Terms for Multi-Dimensional Summation-by-Parts Operators

David C. Del Rey Fernández, Jason E. Hicken, David W. Zingg

This paper is concerned with the accurate, conservative, and stable imposition of boundary conditions and inter-element coupling for multi-dimensional summation-by-parts (SBP) fini…

math.NA2015

Multidimensional Summation-By-Parts Operators: General Theory and Application to Simplex Elements

Jason E. Hicken, David C. Del Rey Fernández, David W. Zingg

Summation-by-parts (SBP) finite-difference discretizations share many attractive properties with Galerkin finite-element methods (FEMs), including time stability and superconvergen…

math.NA2014

Generalized Summation-by-Parts Operators for the Second Derivative with Variable Coefficients

David C. Del Rey Fernández, David W. Zingg

The comprehensive generalization of summation-by-parts of Del Rey Fernández et al.\ (J. Comput. Phys., 266, 2014) is extended to approximations of second derivatives with variable…

math.NA2014★ 6 cited

Runge-Kutta Characterization of the Generalized Summation-by-Parts Approach in Time

Pieter D. Boom, David W. Zingg

This article extends the theory of dual-consistent summation-by-parts (SBP) and generalized SBP (GSBP) time-marching methods by showing that they are implicit Runge-Kutta schemes.…

math.NA2014★ 70 cited

High-Order Implicit Time-Marching Methods Based on Generalized Summation-By-Parts Operators

Pieter D. Boom, David W. Zingg

This article extends the theory of classical finite-difference summation-by-parts (FD-SBP) time-marching methods to the generalized summation-by-parts (GSBP) framework. Dual-consis…

math.NA2011★ 122 cited

Summation-By-Parts Operators and High-Order Quadrature

Jason E. Hicken, David W. Zingg

Summation-by-parts (SBP) operators are finite-difference operators that mimic integration by parts. This property can be useful in constructing energy-stable discretizations of par…