A discontinuous Ritz method for a class of calculus of variations problems

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Authors Xiaobing Feng, Stefan Schnake

Publication date 8 February 2019

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.04297, http://www.math.ualberta.ca/ijnam/Volume-16-2019/No-2-19/2019-02-10.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

compactnessconvergenceminimizersvariational problemsdiscontinuous Galerkin (DG) methodsDG finite element numerical calculus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Discrete approximations in optimal control (49M25) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N12) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30)

Abstract: This paper develops an analogue (or counterpart) to discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for approximating a general class of calculus of variations problems. The proposed method, called the discontinuous Ritz (DR) method, constructs a numerical solution by minimizing a discrete energy over DG function spaces. The discrete energy includes standard penalization terms as well as the DG finite element (DG-FE) numerical derivatives developed recently by Feng, Lewis, and Neilan in [Feng2013]. It is proved that the proposed DR method converges and that the DG-FE numerical derivatives exhibit a compactness property which is desirable and crucial for applying the proposed DR method to problems with more complex energy functionals. Numerical tests are provided on the classical $p$-Laplace problem to gauge the performance of the proposed DR method.

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