A mortar element method for elliptic problems with discontinuous coefficients

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The paper is concerned with a domain decomposition method when the interface \(\Gamma\) lies in the interior of the given domain. Then it is not necessary to distinguish between the trace spaces \(H^{1/2}\) and \(H^{1/2}_{00}\). The coefficients of the differential equation may have jumps on \(\Gamma\). In contrast to other investigations of mortar elements, the interface may be curved and need not be polygonal. An error estimate is established for the mortar element method by treating mortar elements as nonconforming elements. For this reason six linear mappings like interpolation operators, extension operators, projection operators for two inner products, and transfer operators are introduced. The authors do not discuss the question whether the estimate is robust if the jumps of the coefficients become large. On the other hand it is emphasized that there is a cross term in the \(L_2\)-error estimate which makes that the maximal mesh size enters into the factor for the subdomain in which the meshsize is smaller than the maximal value.




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