Idempotent filtering in spectral and spectral element methods

  • Authors:
  • Alex Kanevsky;Mark H. Carpenter;Jan S. Hesthaven

  • Affiliations:
  • Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Box F, Providence, RI 02912, USA;Aeronautics and Aeroacoustic Methods Branch, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23681-0001, USA;Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Box F, Providence, RI 02912, USA

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational Physics
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The comparison of numerical results for implicit-explicit and fully explicit Runge-Kutta time integration methods for a nozzle flow problem shows that filtering can significantly degrade the accuracy of the numerical solution for long-time integration problems. We demonstrate analytically and numerically that filtering-in-time errors become additive for @?u"N(x,t+k@Dt)-u"N(x,t)@?@?@?u"N(x,t)@? when nonidempotent filters are used, and suggest the development and implementation of idempotent filters.