Accession Number:
ADA439718
Title:
Convergence Analysis of a Discontinuous Finite Element Formulation Based on Second Order Derivatives
Descriptive Note:
Research paper
Corporate Author:
TEXAS UNIV AT AUSTIN
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Report Date:
2004-11-01
Pagination or Media Count:
32.0
Abstract:
A new Discontinuous Galerkin Formulation is introduced for the elliptic reaction-diffusion problem that incorporates local second order distributional derivatives. The corresponding bilinear form satisfies both coercivity and continuity properties on the broken Hilbert space of Hsup 2 functions. For piecewise polynomial approximations of degree p 2, optimal uniform h and p convergence rates are obtained in the broken Hsup 1 and Hsup 2 norms. Convergence in Lsup 2 is optimal for p 3, if the computational mesh is strictly rectangular. If the mesh consists of skewed elements, then optimal convergence is only obtained if the corner angles satisfy a given regularity condition. For p 2, only suboptimal h convergence rates in Lsup 2 are obtained and for linear polynomial approximations the method does not converge.
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Subject Categories:
- Numerical Mathematics
- Theoretical Mathematics