On (essentially) non-oscillatory discretizations of evolutionary convection-diffusion equations

  • Authors:

  • Volker John;Julia Novo

  • Affiliations:

  • Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Leibniz Institute in Forschungsverbund Berlin e. V. (WIAS), Mohrenstr. 39, 10117 Berlin, Germany and Free University of Berlin, Departme ...;Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational Physics
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Finite element and finite difference discretizations for evolutionary convection-diffusion-reaction equations in two and three dimensions are studied which give solutions without or with small under- and overshoots. The studied methods include a linear and a nonlinear FEM-FCT scheme, simple upwinding, an ENO scheme of order 3, and a fifth order WENO scheme. Both finite element methods are combined with the Crank-Nicolson scheme and the finite difference discretizations are coupled with explicit total variation diminishing Runge-Kutta methods. An assessment of the methods with respect to accuracy, size of under- and overshoots, and efficiency is presented, in the situation of a domain which is a tensor product of intervals and of uniform grids in time and space. Some comments to the aspects of adaptivity and more complicated domains are given. The obtained results lead to recommendations concerning the use of the methods.