Research Article

A Third Order Accurate Cellwise Relaxation Implicit Discontinuous Galerkin Scheme for Unstructured Hybrid Meshes

Table 1

Computed results for the parabolic equation using 2nd, 3rd, and 4th order schemes.

Cell aspect ratio is 1Cell aspect ratio is 1000
Mesh-1aMesh-1bMesh-1cMesh-2aMesh-2bMesh-2c

Time steps needed for machine zero convergence
 2nd order3210123204689061102288086260
 3rd order599022680858801180044650168060
 4th order9430356501348301727065340247390
CPU time per one time step
 2nd order0.0099 s 0.0527 s 0.3961 s 0.0104 s 0.0528 s 0.4005 s
 3rd order0.0361 s 0.2212 s 1.8564 s 0.0359 s 0.2256 s 1.8497 s
 4th order0.1989 s 1.3447 s 10.520 s 0.1962 s 1.3376 s 10.482 s
Log10(Error) of converged solutions
 2nd order−2.5600−4.8282−6.2279−2.7419−4.7185−7.0051
 3rd order−3.1516−5.7300−7.3960−3.3393−5.5940−8.2653
 4th order−3.7487−6.6345−8.5852−3.9279−6.4839−9.5030
Attained spatial accuracy
 2nd order1.969791.97443
 3rd order2.932333.00013
 4th order4.148923.91538