Asymptotic Errors in the Superconvergence of Discontinuous Galerkin Methods Based on Upwind-Biased Fluxes for 1D Linear Hyperbolic Equations

Abstract

AbstractIn this paper, we study the superconvergence of the semi-discrete discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for linear hyperbolic equations in one spatial dimension. The asymptotic errors in cell averages, downwind point values, and the postprocessed solution are derived for the initial discretization by Gaussian projection (for periodic boundary condition) or Cao projection Cao et al. (SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 5, 2555–2573 (2014)) (for Dirichlet boundary condition). We proved that the error constant in the superconvergence of order $$2k+1$$ 2 k + 1 for DG methods based on upwind-biased fluxes depends on the parity of the order k. The asymptotic errors are demonstrated by various numerical experiments for scalar and vector hyperbolic equations.