A Discontinuous Galerkin method with weighted averages for advection-diffusion equations with locally vanishing and anisotropic diffusivity

no code implementations • modeling and scientific computing 2007 • Alexandre Ern, Annette F. Stephansen, Paolo Zunino

We consider Discontinuous Galerkin approximations of advection-diffusion equations with anisotropic and discontinuous diffusivity, and propose the symmetric weighted interior penalty (SWIP) method for better coping with locally vanishing diffusivity.