Numerical Properties of a Discontinuous Galerkin Fomulation for Electro-thermal Coupled Problems

Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods are attractive tools to integrate several PDEs in engineering sciences, due to their high order accuracy and their high scalability in parallel simulations. The main interest of this work is to derive a constant and stable Discontinuous Galerkin method for two-way electro-thermal coupling analyses. A fully coupled nonlinear weak formulation for electro-thermal problems is developed based on continuum mechanics equations which are discretized using the Discontinuous Galerkin method. Toward this end, the weak form is written in terms of energetically conjugated fields gradients and fluxes. In order to validate the effectiveness of the formulation and illustrate the algorithmic properties, a numerical test for composite materials is performed.