Error estimates for a discontinuous Galerkin method for elliptic problems (Q2504086)

The authors study the possibility of approximative solution of the problem \(\nabla (a\nabla u+bu)+du=f\text{ in }L_{2}(\Omega )\), \(u=0\text{ on } \partial \Omega\), using the discontinuous Galerkin method. The domain \(\Omega \in \mathbb{R}^{2}\) is divided in a finite collection \(\mathbb{P}_{h}\) of subdomains \(\mathbb{K}_{i}\). Integrating and using the properties of \(a, b, d\) this problem is reduced to form \(B^{\sigma }(u,v)=F(v)\quad v\in H_{0}^{2}(P_{h})\), where \(B^{\sigma }(u,v)\) is a special bilinear form. The following approximative equation is considered: \(B^{\sigma}(u_{h},v)=F(v),\quad v\in V_{h}\), where \(V_{h}\) is a subspace of polynomial functions, but its effective construction is not presented. The error estimate of this method is established.