An Adaptive Discontinuous Galerkin Technique with an Orthogonal Basis Applied to Compressible Flow Problems

We present a high-order formulation for solving hyperbolic conservation laws using the discontinuous Galerkin method (DGM). We introduce an orthogonal basis for the spatial discretization and use explicit Runge--Kutta time discretization. Some results of higher order adaptive refinement calculations are presented for inviscid Rayleigh--Taylor flow instability and shock reflection problems. The adaptive procedure uses an error indicator that concentrates the computational effort near discontinuities.

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