A discontinuous Galerkin time integration scheme for second order differential equations with applications to seismic wave propagation problems

Keywords

High Performance Computing
Advanced Numerical Methods for Scientific Computing
Code:
05/2021
Title:
A discontinuous Galerkin time integration scheme for second order differential equations with applications to seismic wave propagation problems
Date:
Monday 25th January 2021
Author(s):
Antonietti, P.F.; Mazzieri, I.; Migliorini, F.
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Abstract:
In this work, we present a new high order Discontinuous Galerkin time integration scheme for second-order (in time) differential systems that typically arise from the space discretization of the elastodynamics equation. By rewriting the original equation as a system of first order differential equations we introduce the method and show that the resulting discrete formulation is well-posed, stable and retains super-optimal rate of convergence with respect to the discretization parameters, namely the time step and the polynomial approximation degree. A set of two- and three-dimensional numerical experiments confirm the theoretical bounds. Finally, the method is applied to real geophysical applications.
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