The capabilities of summation-by-parts and structure-preserving operators for compressible computational fluid dynamics and reaction-diffusion models Mohammed Sayyari, Ph.D. Student, Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences Mar 21, 14:00 - 16:00 B2 L5 R5209 With the algorithm's suitability for exploiting current petascale and next-generation exascale supercomputers, stable and structure-preserving properties are necessary to develop predictive computational tools. This dissertation uses the mimetic properties of SBP-SAT operators and the structure-preserving property of a new relaxation procedure for Runge--Kutta schemes to construct nonlinearly stable full discretizations for non-reactive compressible computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and reaction-diffusion models.