Nonconforming \(h\)-\(p\) spectral element methods for elliptic problems (Q2370549)

A modified version of the \(h\)-\(p\) spectral element method is proposed to solve elliptic problems with general boundary conditions. Exponential convergence is achieved on polygonal domains using nonconforming spectral element functions. A geometrical mesh is used in a neighbourhood of the corners. With this mesh the sum of the weighted squared norm of the residuals in the partial differential equation and the squared norm of the residuals in the boundary conditions are minimized. The boundary conditions are minimized in fractional Sobolev spaces and continuity is enforced by adding a term which measures the jump in the function and its derivatives at inter-element boundaries. In the neighbourhood of corners, modified polar coordinates are used and a global coordinate system elsewhere. A stability estimate is derived and it is examined how to parallelize the method. The method is faster than the \(h\)-\(p\) finite element method and stronger error estimates are obtained.