TY - JOUR T1 - A Well-Balanced Discontinuous Galerkin Method for the Blood Flow Model AU - Yao , Zhonghua AU - Li , Gang AU - Song , Lina JO - Journal of Mathematical Study VL - 2 SP - 174 EP - 189 PY - 2017 DA - 2017/06 SN - 50 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/jms.v50n2.17.04 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jms/10008.html KW - Blood flow model, discontinuous Galerkin method, well-balanced property, high order accuracy, source term. AB -
Numerical simulations by high order methods for the blood flow model in arteries have wide applications in medical engineering. This blood flow model admits the steady state solutions, for which the flux gradient is non-zero, and is exactly balanced by the source term. In this paper,we design a high order discontinuous Galerkin method to this model by means of a novel source term approximation as well as well-balanced numerical fluxes. Rigorous theoretical analysis as well as extensive numerical results all suggests that the resulting method maintains the well-balanced property, enjoys high order accuracy and keeps good resolutions for smooth and discontinuous solutions.