Almost optimal interior penalty discontinuous approximations of symmetric elliptic problems on nonmatching grids (Q2570653)

This paper is concerned by parallel discretization methods for symmetric elliptic problems. These problems are defined on domains which are split into a fixed number of nonoverlaping subdomains ; each subdomain is meshed independently, so that nonmatching grids are obtained. The authors study an interior penalty finite element approximation which leads to a symmetric algebraic problem with optimal conditioning. They improve previous results on the subject and get almost optimal error estimates. In this way, they introduce a mixed formulation of the penalty problem and they derive a priori error estimate for its solution. This theoretical study is illustrated by numerical experiments on two model examples.