Parallel adaptive discontinuous Galerkin discretizations in space and time for linear elastic and acousticwaves

Abstract

We introduce a space-time discretization for elastic and acoustic waves using a discontinuous Galerkin approximation in space and a Petrov–Galerkin scheme in time. For the dG method, the upwind flux is evaluated by explicitly solving a Riemann problem. Then we show well-posedness and convergence of the discrete system. Based on goal-oriented dualweighted error estimation an adaptive strategy is introduced. The full space-time linear system is solved with a parallel multilevel preconditioner. Numerical experiments for acoustic and elastic waves underline the efficiency of the overall adaptive solution process