Hybridized summation-by-parts finite difference methods (Q2031861)

The authors proposed a hybridized summation-by-parts finite difference method for elliptic PDEs, where boundary and interface conditions are enforced weakly through the simultaneous-approximation-term method. The hybridization enables definition of a global and local problem which then allows the Schur complement to be used in order to reduce the size of the linear system. The developed method is symmetric positive definite and thus the elliptic discretization is stable. Since the discretization is based on the hybridized interior penalty method [\textit{B. Cockburn} et al., SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 47, No. 2, 1319--1365 (2009; Zbl 1205.65312)], the bound for the penalty parameter is given. Both theoretical stability result and accuracy of the method are confirmed with numerical experiments.