A hybrid SIAC - data-driven post-processing filter for discontinuities in solutions to numerical PDEs

Soraya Terrab, Samy Wu Fung, Jennifer K. Ryan

Abstract: We present a hybrid filter that is only applied to the approximation at the final time and allows for reducing errors away from a shock as well as near a shock. It is designed for discontinuous Galerkin approximations to PDEs and combines a rigorous moment-based Smoothness-Increasing Accuracy-Conserving (SIAC) filter with a data-driven CNN filter. While SIAC improves accuracy in smooth regions, it fails to reduce the $\mathcal{O}(1)$ errors near discontinuities, particularly in inviscid compressible flows with shocks. Our hybrid SIAC-CNN filter, trained exclusively on top-hat functions, enforces consistency constraints globally and higher-order moment conditions in smooth regions, reducing both $\ell_2$ and $\ell_\infty$ errors near discontinuities and preserving theoretical accuracy in smooth regions. We demonstrate its effectiveness on the Euler equations for the Lax, Sod, and Shu-Osher shock-tube problems.