High order entropy stable discontinuous Galerkin spectral element methods through subcell limiting

Abstract: Subcell limiting strategies for discontinuous Galerkin spectral element methods do not provably satisfy a semi-discrete cell entropy inequality. In this work, we introduce an extension to the subcell and monolithic convex limiting strategies that satisfies the semi-discrete cell entropy inequality by formulating the limiting factors as solutions to an optimization problem. The optimization problem is efficiently solved using a deterministic greedy algorithm. We also discuss the extension of the proposed subcell limiting strategy to preserve general convex constraints. Numerical experiments confirm that the proposed limiting strategy preserves high-order accuracy for smooth solutions and satisfies the cell entropy inequality.